114285
submission
SgtChaireBourne writes:
A lot of the all-in-one distance education systems are expensive, poorly done, or both.
Distance education makes heavy use of text-based chat, shared whiteboards (including the ability to display PDF and OpenDocument), and conference calls with recording and playback. Many of these have been available for ages, individually, as Free or open source software.
Which F/OSS tools or components would be most suitable, either individually or combined, for distance education and why?
35111
submission
SgtChaireBourne writes:
A group of FOSS enthusiasts making a documentary film using a collaborative, open
source-like methodology. The semi-raw footage is
in the Internet Archive in small, modular chunks for
other video enthusiasts to splice together to create a story under a Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike
license. Can the open
source development model be used to create a movie? The folks behind The
Digital Tipping Point (DTP) are betting it can.
Linux
and other open source software have been used in rendering farms for major
pictures like Shrek, Lord of the Rings, and many others. Earlier this
year the Blender project released Elephants Dream, the first movie
made entirely with open source graphics software. The Digital Tippingpoint is the first to try to apply the development model itself to movie production.
Because the footage is available under the CC it can used by anyone to create their own movies
or video shorts.
14635
submission
SgtChaireBourne writes:
Trolltech has released version 4.2 of Qt, its C++ based cross-platform development toolkit. This version adds CSS-like stylesheets for the desktop, a new 2D graphics view class, Qt/Mac has improved use of native Carbon widgets. Qt is dual licensed. Source code for the GPL'd version can be downloaded for OS X, Linux or Windows.
