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Open Source at the Front of the Class

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Open source is sitting at the head of the class in a growing number of schools with all levels of education. Its no-cost starting point and use-it-your-way flexibility gives open source technology an advantage over proprietary solutions with its no-license and no-fee lesson plan.

Don't think so? LinuxInsider spoke with several technology administrators around the country who gave their open source experiences a solid A+.

Penn Manor School District in Pennsylvania gives each student a laptop powered with Linux and configured with root access. The experiment provides a soup-to-nuts education where students handle the laptops from box to classroom.

The school system created a student-run computer help desk, which enabled the students to work together to unbox, label and inventory the laptops.

Oakland Unified School District in California is another of many schools making a big move into instructional technology using open source. In that school district open source is widespread. The students participate in the active programmers community and get to see much of the process first hand.

"There is a big push in the district to get students technologically literate. Open source software is ideal for meeting our goal of differentiating instruction for each student," Tierre Messa, dean at Oakland Unified School District and a technology teacher, told LinuxInsider.

For many education outlets looking to bring a fresh approach to technology, open source is an easy selling point. In fact, for many open source adopters at schools, open source technology sells itself.

Todd Ross Nienkerk, managing partner of Four Kitchens Web Design, uses open source software almost exclusively in designing systems for education users. He sees an increasing adoption of open source technologies in that market.

"We usually do not have to sell people on using open source. By the time they contact us, they already decided on using open source," Nienkerk told LinuxInsider.

His company addresses the use of open source in three key areas: multi-media publishing, non-profit and education. The company works with education reform groups in elementary and high school education. It also consults on web technology issues at major universities.

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(118) Free Knowledge-ISA-NT Security Controls (Cryptography)-Part 8-Version 1 – Video

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(118) Free Knowledge-ISA-NT Security Controls (Cryptography)-Part 8-Version 1
Study material of DISA made easy: This is the Fourth part of the Module 3 Chapter 5 " Network Security Controls" wherein "Cryptography" are explained. This is the Post Qualification course...

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A Glimmer Of Hope for Julian Assange

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Authorities in Sweden, which is seeking the Australian journalists extradition to face allegations of sexual assault, admitted there is a possibility that measures could be taken to jumpstart the stalled legal proceedings against Assange.

GENEVA - There is a window of hope, thanks to a U.N. human rights body, for a solution to the diplomatic asylum of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, holed up in the embassy of Ecuador in London for the past two and a half years.

Authorities in Sweden, which is seeking the Australian journalists extradition to face allegations of sexual assault, admitted there is a possibility that measures could be taken to jumpstart the stalled legal proceedings against Assange.

The head of Assanges legal defence team, former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzn, told IPS that in relation to this case we have expressed satisfaction that the Swedish state has accepted the proposals of several countries.

The prominent Spanish lawyer and international jurist was referring to proposals set forth by Argentina, Cuba, Ecuador, Slovakia and Uruguay.

The final report by the U.N. Human Rights Councils Universal Periodic Review (UPR), adopted Thursday Jan. 28 in Geneva, Switzerland, contains indications that a possible understanding among the different countries concerned might be on the horizon.

The UPR is a mechanism of the Geneva-based Human Rights Council to examine the human rights performance of all U.N. member states.

The situation of Assange, a journalist, computer programmer and activist born in Australia in 1971, was introduced in Swedens UPR by Ecuador, the country that granted him diplomatic asylum in its embassy in London, and by several European and Latin American nations.

The head of the Swedish delegation to the UPR, Annika Sder, state secretary for political affairs at Swedens foreign ministry, told IPS that This is a very complex matter in which the government can only do a few things.

Sder said that in Sweden, Assange is suspected of crimes, rape, sexual molestation in accordance with Swedish law. And thats why the prosecutor in Sweden wants to conduct the primary investigation.

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