Recent annoucement about open clipart project at http://openclipart.org/wiki/Announcement_20. If you just want to get going and use the clips then use this link http://openclipart.org/

Source : Open Source Schools

Data.gov.uk expected to be officially launched tomorrow, offering free access to huge wealth of public-sector data

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, is expected to lead the formal launch tomorrow ofdata.gov.uk, a new British government website offering free access to a huge amount of public-sector data for private or commercial reuse.

The aim is to encourage British web developers

Happy 5th Birthday to Firefox and here’s to another 5 years of open sourced creativity

Today, Ubuntu 9.04 was released to the general public.  For the uninitiated, Ubuntu is a free, open source, operating system that will work on most PCs.  It uses less resources than Windows or Mac OSX and is ideal to run on older hardware, thus giving it more life, making it ideal for the voluntary sector.

Ubuntu is a Linux based system, but that doesn’t make it a tale of woe trying to set it up.  When you download it, (did I say it was free?) you simply burn it to a CD, reboot your computer and it loads up.  You can actually use it on a CD to get an idea on how to use it.  However, by installing on to a hard drive, it’ll run far quicker.

Ubuntu ships with various software packages, but those of note are OpenOffice, a fully Microsoft Office compatible office suite; RhythmBox for managing music; F-Stop for managing photo libraries and Totem for video.  You then have access to a huge library of free software right within the OS.  I have personally used Audacity for audio editing and you can get video editing software, Skype, in fact anything you need for a youth project.

Ubuntu is an African word meaning ‘Humanity to others’, or ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world, so it has an educational merit in itself.

Now, I am a Mac user through and through, but I always download Ubuntu and install a copy, just to keep in with developments and promote the great cause.