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A key change at iCommons
If you're not part of the iCommons mailing list, take a look at the letter that Heather Ford, Executive Director of iCommons, sent to the list yesterday:
Dear friends,
At the 2 August iCommons Board Meeting, the board decided to make some difficult but necessary changes at iCommons. It has become clear over the past months that our vision for iCommons is different from the... more
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Collaborating on Open Education
Paola · Lima (Peru) · no comments made
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Participants in this session have been invited to develop a vision for improved collaboration amongst people working on open educational materials, with discussion of how best to build on the work of others.
This was the last session, how all the sessions we work in small groups about our expectations for the next year about open education the big opportunity that everyone can mention his own ideas, everybody is a speaker. Gunner (AspirationTech.org) ask each group to show our work.
I can see that we have many ideas in commons, we share again our expectation the scale the open education movement After that, we build one resume of our session called a report feedback and we show it during the final session with all the participants.
This list provides a listing of examples of different projects developed around the idea of communities and openness.
InnoCentive
http://www.innocentive.com/
InnoCentive® is an exciting web-based community matching top scientists to relevant R&D challenges facing leading companies from around the globe. We provide a powerful online forum enabling major companies to reward scientific innovation through financial incentives.
Make Magazine: Technology on your time
http://www.makezine.com/
MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.
BioForge: an online community for biotechnology innovation
http://www.bioforge.net/
BioForge is intended to serve as a portal to a dynamic protected commons of enabling technologies in the life sciences, available to anyone for improvement and to use in new innovations, both commercial and non-commercial.
World Community Grid
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
World Community Grid's mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Our work is built on the belief that technological innovation combined with visionary scientific research and large-scale volunteerism can change our world for the better. Our success depends on individuals - like you - collectively contributing their unused computer time to this not-for-profit endeavor.
RepRap Project
http://reprap.org/
RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is a practical self-copying 3D printer.The RepRap build cost will be less than $400 US for the bought-in materials, all of which have been selected to be as widely available everywhere in the world as possible. Complete instructions and plans are published free on this website so, if you want to make one yourself, you can. Also, the RepRap software contains nothing that can't work on all computer platforms for free.
Open Prosthetics
http://openprosthetics.org/
A project to create useful and innovative prosthetic devices and release the designs into the public domain.
Fab@Home
http://www.fabathome.org/
Fab@Home is a website dedicated to making and using fabbers - machines that can make almost anything, right on your desktop.
OScar project
http://www.theoscarproject.org/
The idea behind the OScar project is simple: A community of people plans and develops a new car in the web. The idea is about the goal to develop a simple and innovative car, but also about the way how this goal is achieved. We would like to convey the idea of Open Source to “hardware” and we want OScar to be the precursor for many different projects in this field.
tags: peru education summit07
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