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I develop free software because of CUNY and Blackboard

19-Sep-11

For two reasons, Blackboard is the key to why I develop free software. The first reason is historical. I first got into free software development because of my work with the CUNY Academic Commons project. As spearheaded by Matt Gold, George Otte and others, the Commons is intended to create a space, using free software [...]

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The GPL is for users

02-Sep-11

The General Public License (aka the GPL) is for users. This observation seems so obvious that it needn’t be stated. But for those who develop software licensed under the GPL (like WordPress and most related projects), it’s a fact that should be revisited every now and again, because it has all sorts of ramifications for [...]

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Project Reclaim

15-Mar-11

Update: I have begun aggregating these posts at projectreclaim.net. Lately I have been feeling increasingly uneasy about the state of my digital affairs. I am a leader on a number of open source software projects that pride themselves on, among other things, their ability to enable users to “own their own data”. Moreover, I am [...]

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Empowering through openness – my application for the OpenEd 2009 travel scholarship

30-Jun-09

This blog post is my application for one of the travel scholarships to OpenEd 2009. Here’s how the prompt goes: What you would “bring” to the conference? What can you contribute, be it a willingness to volunteer to moderate a session, some special expertise or project, an already accepted proposal… What you see as the [...]

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