Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source IT consulting services for the higher education market, will be presenting and participating in a total of seventeen technical seminars and presentations at the upcoming Jasig Spring 2010 Conference, “Ten Years of Open Source Innovation,” being held in San Diego, California, March 7-10, 2010.

The 3rd post in a series focused on free tools for recording, editing, and publishing video tutorials. I’ve been working this month to find a set of free tools that can enable me to produce and distribute video tutorials. Picking up where I left off last week, this weekend I pursued the idea of using Windows Movie Maker as a free editing tool [...]

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has granted $2.38 million to the Kuali OLE (Open Library Environment) project, of which the University of Pennsylvania Libraries are a founding partner. The project’s goal is to develop and freely distribute community source software designed specifically for the management of print and electronic collections for academic and research libraries worldwide.

My friend Patrick Masson has started an EDUCAUSE wiki page to develop a working definition of “openness”. I’m going to sidestep the hot debate around that topic and focus instead on the distinction he makes between openness and transparency, which he defines as “provid[ing] the stakeholder community access to–and perhaps even a platform to inform–the [...]

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is closing a grant program that financed a series of high-profile university software projects, leaving some worried about a vacuum of support for open-source ventures hat includes Sakai, Kuali, and Zotero, a program for managing research sources.