by | | Culture & Society, Education, FLOSS, Interviews, OLPC, Open standards, Software, Sugar, syndication-floss, Talks, Work
Adam Holt and I were interviewed last night by the Australian Council for Computers in Education Learning Network about our not-for-profit work to improve educational opportunities for children in the developing world. We talked about One...
by | | OLPC, Open standards, Sugar, syndication-floss, Work
One of the most exciting improvements in OLPC OS 12.1.0 is a revamped Browse activity: Browse, Wikipedia and Help have been moved from Mozilla to WebKit internally, as the Mozilla engine can no longer be embedded into other applications (like Browse) and...
by | | FLOSS, OLPC, Open standards, Sugar, syndication-floss, Work
In my last blog post, I made the suggestion that Sugar integrate HTML5 more closely to allow for the creation of activities in standard Web technologies. The Karma Project has since been pointed out to me, and the demos look impressive. Unfortunately,...
by | | Childhood, Culture & Society, FLOSS, OLPC, Open standards, Personal, Software, Sugar, syndication-floss, Work
Adobe is dropping Linux support for their Adobe AIR development platform. To be honest, I don’t really care. Why? Because I’ve been careful enough to not tie my efforts to a proprietary platform. I’ve had several groups offer to write...
by | | FLOSS, Interviews, Open standards, Personal, syndication-floss, Work
Apologies for pimping my employer, but I became the subject of the inaugural ‘Meet the Team’ portion of the BizCubed newsletter. It’s a good feeling knowing that you work for a company that actually cares about open source and open standards. For...
by | | Culture & Society, Open standards, syndication-floss
The ABC have a piece from National Library of Australia web archiving manager Paul Koerbin, about the importance of digital records preservation. Of equal importance, how can we be sure that we can actually read those archives in the future? Literacy of...
