Sunday, July 18th

The new OA 4.75 version is now available for download. New LDAP management, templated reports, new staff system, and other improvements.

OA Version 4.75

This release has new LDAP Management, and Templated Student Staff report and simple Template generator.

Example One

Like many of you, I have been burning the midnight oil learning how the revolution called Open Atrium 1 works under the hood.  In the end, it is hard to out-do its makers for elegance, so rather than rolling a new edition of Drupal 2, building on the great work in Open Atrium seems to be a smart move. 

So, the challenge is not so much technical as social: how can we adapt it to work in a school?  I suggest envisioning the typical uses.  So, here we go:

It starts from the top in schools, so our hypothetical "head" of school will show us how to post the news -- to everyone.

After logging-in and looking over what's been posted lately, he finally goes to the "create content" button and posts his school-wide news.

1. 1. http://openatrium.org
2. 2. http://drupal.org

P2PU School of Webcraft: Developer training that's free, open and globally accessible

From:  http://www.drumbeat.org/p2pu-webcraft/about

"Mozilla and Peer 2 Peer University are creating the P2PU School of Webcraft, a powerful new way to teach and learn web developer skills. Our classes are globally accessible, 100% free, and powered entirely by learners, mentors and contributors like you. Our goal: create a vibrant, peer-led system that helps people around the world easily access and build careers on open web technology."

Open, Fine-Grained Certification

"Today's best developers draw on a broad mix of tools and platforms to learn, create, and innovate. Many certificate courses focus on a single proprietary technology, limiting students' exposure to the broad mix of tools today's developers need. This causes skill silos and student lock-in, hindering developers' abilities to implement optimal solutions, and the ability of those solutions to improve the field more broadly. Four-year programs can be out of reach for many, and emphasize rigid curricula that are not designed to keep pace with new developments in the field.

"June 4th, 2010 SOURCE: http://www.eff.org

Commentary by Kurt Opsahl

Earlier this week, Yahoo! announced a plan to try to leverage its Yahoo! Mail users' contacts into a social network of friends who will receive your Yahoo! Updates. Once the most visited website in the world, Yahoo! now ranks fourth worldwide, reaching about a quarter of all Internet users each day. Like Google Buzz's ill-fated launch using Gmail contacts, Yahoo! wants to jump start its social networking plans with the hundreds of millions of people who already use its email and messenger services.

The rise of Government 2.0 signals the emergence of IT innovation and the Web as a platform for fostering efficiencies within government and citizen part