Mark Horner launched his Siyavula blog this week! Yay! It’ll be a great way for people to track this ambitious and important open education project. For those of you who don’t know: More We are opening: free textbooks for South Africa
Category: open
Open everything unfolds
The Open Everything idea I’ve been talking about for a while has started to pick up steam. There is now a tiny web site up. And, there are events planned for London, Cape Town, Toronto, Singapore and a small, wonderful island off the coast of British Columbia. More Open everything unfolds
Open licensing, and how we work
As I blogged previously, I’m doing a series of short pieces that look under the hood at the day to day work of the Shuttleworth Foundation. As the opening blurb to my first article says: More Open licensing, and how we work
A pirate, a professor and a political compass
Over the past week, I’ve been reflecting on the ideas of two people: Jonathan Zittrain (a professor) and Matt Mason (a pirate, or at least a fan of pirates). This has got me thinking about the ‘political compass question’ again, which goes something like this … More A pirate, a professor and a political compass
Planting seeds with open content
Open, philanthropy and a theory of change
Open vs. open vs. etc
As I posted way back when, I have been reflecting a great deal on the question: why are so many people attracted to the word ‘open’? More Open vs. open vs. etc