Open Source and CCCC
26 Mar
Posted by cel4145
in intellectual property, open source, resolution
At this year's Conference on College Composition and Communication in New York, CCCC-IP, 7C's, and the CCCC IP Committee unanimously approved the Proposed NCTE/ CCCC Resolution on the Adoption and Use of Open Source Software. A shortened version of the document was then presented and approved as a Sense of the House Motion at the CCCC Business Meeting on Saturday morning. Read the text of the open source motion at CCCC-IP.
It is my hope we can submit a version of these documents as a formal resolution at next year's CCCC and at NCTE, and it is also my hope that other educational organizations will similarly adopt statements or resolutions advocating and supporting the use of open source software in education.
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It's also worth noting that the Free and Open Software Users' Group met for the second time (though this is the first official meeting, when we're on the program). I am updating my wiki page for this group as time allows.
For 2007-8, we have three focuses: (1) pushing the resolution Charlie wrote about forward; (2) developing a directory of software and users; (3) developing resources for OpenOffice.