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www.wired.com www.wired.com
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the internet has become essential to our everyday life
What if we had pockets of non-Internet connectivity, though? A mesh network doesn’t necessarily need to have nodes on the Internet. For instance, a classroom could have a “course in a box”, with all sorts of resources provided on local network, but without a connection to the whole Internet… So many teachers keep complaining about their students’ use of the Internet that they end up banning devices. But what if we allowed devices and even encouraged them, as long as they’re not on the Internet? WiFi connections tend to be spotty, to this day, and some classes are cellular deadzones. A bit like Dogme 95, getting used to sans-Internet connectivity could help us “get creative”. What would we do if we were to do a tech-savvy course on the proverbial “desert island”, without Internet?
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www.talkingnewmedia.com www.talkingnewmedia.com
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unlike Adobe DPS, Inkling, or some other would-be competitors…it’s free.
And unlike Calibre, it’s “free with purchase” and not “free as in speech” or even, really, “free as in beer”.
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- Dec 2015
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if the group should decide to fork Moodle together
Contrary to Free Software, Open Source has special affordances for forking, even if the forks become commercial.
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alliance of Moodle service providers that currently collaborate on Moodle-related projects of mutual interest
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- Nov 2015
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ma.tt ma.tt
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The four freedoms don’t limit us as creators — they open possibilities for us as creators and consumers. When you apply them to software, you get Linux, Webkit/Chrome, and WordPress. When you apply them to medicine, you get the Open Genomics Engine, which is accelerating cancer research and bringing us closer to personalized treatment. When you apply them to companies, you get radically geographically distributed, results-based organizations like Automattic. When you apply them to events you get TEDx, Barcamp, and WordCamp. When you apply them to knowledge, you get Wikipedia.
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as of December 2013, 21% of websites are powered by WordPress. One-fifth of the web is built with a tool that anyone can use, change, or improve, whenever and however they want (even more when you count other open source projects
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B2 was ultimately abandoned by its creator. If I’d been using it under a proprietary license, that would have been the end — for me, and all its other users. But because we had freedoms 2 and 3, Mike Little and I were able to use the software as a foundation
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I’ve spent a third of my life building software based on Stallman’s four freedoms, and I’ve been astonished by the results. WordPress wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for those freedoms, and it couldn’t have evolved the way it has. WordPress was based on a program called B2/cafelog that predated it by two years. I was using B2 because it had freedoms 0 and 1
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www.gnu.org www.gnu.orggnu.org1
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The Free Software Foundation's definition of free software, originally expressed by Richard Stallman. It is free as in free speech, not as in free beer. Software offered for a fee can still be free. A program is free software if the users have four essential freedoms:
0. Run the program as you wish, for any purpose.<br> 1. Study the source code, and change it as you please.<br> 2. Copy and distribute the original program.<br> 3. Copy and distribute modified versions.
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walterbender.github.io walterbender.github.io
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Turtle blocks
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- Oct 2015
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Um sistema bancário livre, como sugerido na pergunta do Hélio Beltrão, não teria, como disse o Gustavo Franco, "o poder discricionário de criar moeda".
Mas teria, no entanto, vários outros tipos de controles e balanços, que seriam criados automaticamente pelo mercado, e que tornariam inútil essa capacidade. Em resumo, os bancos não precisariam criar moeda discricionariamente porque não haveria crises monetárias como a de 2008 e, quando houvesse crises importadas elas não trariam risco algum de crise bancária.
Este arranjo, que para todos os efeitos é apenas uma hipótese imaginária, vale? Bate com a realidade e se encaixa na teoria econômica que Gustavo Franco conhece e defende? Acho que sim, mas seria interessante ouvir o que o Gustavo Franco pensa. O problema é que isto nunca vai acontecer, porque Gustavo Franco é, como mostra este vídeo, incapaz até mesmo de compreender a pergunta.
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www.cultofpedagogy.com www.cultofpedagogy.com
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It’s free.
Free as in “tracked”. Sure, Google signed the privacy pledged and they don’t use data to advertise directly to students. But there are many loopholes. As rms makes very clear, GAfE is the exact opposite of Free Software. It’s “not having to pay for your own enslavement”.
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- Sep 2015
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www.jonobacon.org www.jonobacon.org
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freedom is also a deeply personal thing.
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- Nov 2014
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www.eatdrinkpolitics.com www.eatdrinkpolitics.com
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Funny how Corporate America loves the term “free market” except when they are under threat.
Author misses the point here. Corporate America loves the term "free market" only when it is under threat. A "free market", as we know it, is anything but free. It is regulated into existence by "free trade" agreements and the like.
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www.perl.org www.perl.org
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There are many ways to start... learn.perl.orgexternal link A brief introductionexternal link Free online Perl books Join your local community Books and More
Perl's learning resources | http://www.perl.org/learn.html
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git-scm.com git-scm.com
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Git Basics So, what is Git in a nutshell?
Getting started with Git
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learnxinyminutes.com learnxinyminutes.com
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Python was created by Guido Van Rossum in the early 90s. It is now one of the most popular languages in existence. I fell in love with Python for its syntactic clarity. It’s basically executable pseudocode.
Helpful concise, Python syntax doc
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www.perl.org www.perl.org
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Full Text Beginning Perl Modern Perl Impatient Perl Extreme Perl Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason Picking Up Perl Perl 5 Internals Practical Mod Perl Perl & LWP
Full e-books on Perl
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www.pythonlearn.com www.pythonlearn.com
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The goal of this site is to provide a set of materials in support of my Python for Informatics: Exploring Information book to allow you to learn Python on your own. This page serves as an outline of the materials to support the textbook.
http://www.pythonlearn.com/ | A great resource for starting programmers looking to build knowledge and gain skills. Open Source Course
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- Sep 2014
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www.americanbar.org www.americanbar.org
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Amicus brief in Anthony Douglas Elonis v. United States, including a long section describing the origins and history of hip hop, calling for the court to take serious caution when ruling on the actual or real intent to harm communicated (or not) by potentially hyperbolic lyrics and braggadocio.
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What level of knowledge of rap and understanding of its complicated conventions is a defendant-speaker to assume, in advance of communication, that a hypothetically reasonable person possesses in order to properly understand a rap message? Because the answer is anything but clear and because a speaker’s First Amendment rights should not hang on what amounts to guesswork about an audience’s hypothetically reasonable knowledge of a complex artistic and political genre of expression, the actual subjective intent of the defendant-speaker must be considered in both the First Amendment and statutory true threats analyses.
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