Re: [TOS] Book Review

2011-01-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:19:52PM -0500, Algot Runeman wrote: > On 01/23/2011 10:46 AM, tosmaillist.neophyte_...@ordinaryamerican.net > wrote: > > The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development. > > By Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman. MIT Press > > http://www.economist.com/node/1789997

Re: [TOS] My intro

2011-01-25 Thread Junaid Siddiqui
Mel, The feeling you have expressed relates to several broader questions. Academia is a form of organization that works on traditions and values. There is no explicit bottom line that can indicate progress and outcome at the end of the day that is meaningful for all stakeholder. The traditions and

Re: [TOS] Technology Lanes

2011-01-25 Thread Stephen Jacobs
> > Pardon me, but I feel the need to think in terms of a swim lane > chart[1] in order to understand what teachingopensource.org (tos.o) & > the Teaching Open Source (TOS) community need for technology. Swim lanes are great, but I think they need to be done in conjunction with goals, outcomes

[TOS] Matt Jadud: opensource.com moderators' choice award winner

2011-01-25 Thread Mel Chua
Just wanted to give a shout-out to Matt, who was just chosen as the first moderators' choice award winner for all his writing about TOS on opensource.com. http://opensource.com/education/11/1/matt-jadud-moderators-choice-award-winner Congrats, Matt! --Mel __

Re: [TOS] My intro

2011-01-25 Thread Matthew Jadud
2011/1/25 Nicholas Whittier : > Again, I'm relatively new to the mailing list, so apologies if this has > already been discussed, but what about a TOS forum or issue tracker?  I am Today is an odd day... but something about this makes me laugh, and I wonder what would happen if we did it. Should

Re: [TOS] My intro

2011-01-25 Thread Nicholas Whittier
+1 on feeling like I could help, but not knowing exactly how I can offer useful efforts. Again, I'm relatively new to the mailing list, so apologies if this has already been discussed, but what about a TOS forum or issue tracker? I am thinking of someplace where profs or less-technical instructor

Re: [TOS] My intro

2011-01-25 Thread Mel Chua
Hi, Junaid - and welcome to the list! > I understand that teaching open source is yet another educational > innovation similar to several others which communities who are > interested in an innovation are exploring to bring them into mainstream > and promote them for a widespread adoption. This pr