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             .LRN ('DOT-LEARN') CONSORTIUM FORMED

Several universities (including MIT, Heidelberg University, and the
University of Sydney) have gotten together and announced the formation
of the .LRN Consortium, which is dedicated to the development of open
source educational software. More information is available at

http://dotlrn.org/

Just to be clear: this seems to be a consortium to support and promote
a particular suite of open source educational software:

       ".LRN is an open source application suite
        for learning and research communities."

On This Day...

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• 2011: Monthly review: September 2011 — As predicted, September was a month of preparation. Work projects winding down and starting up; little things to take care [...]
• 2010: Weekly review: Week ending October 17, 2010 — From last week’s plans Work [X] Organize Idea Labs: Support planning for upcoming Idea Lab [X] Build Connections Toolkit: Build requested [...]
• 2007: Learning — I really do need seven or eight hours of sleep. Otherwise I get a little twitchy. I still managed to be [...]
• 2006: CAS Dublin — The CAS Dublin team linked up through videoconferencing. The speaker highlighted four key fields: high performance computing, software engineering, visualization, and computational [...]
• 2006: Technical co-chairs — Eleni and Hakan joked a bit about their ethnic origins (Greek and Turkish), gave a few statistics for paper submissions, and [...]
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• 2006: Address from Martin Wildberger — Martin Wildberger opened by reexamining IBM’s motto, “Innovation that matters”. One of the key things we struggle with is making sure [...]
• 2006: Waiting for the keynote — I am seated front and center for the CASCON keynote, having decided to run off my laptop battery so that I [...]
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• 2005: Toastmasters and speaking at technical conferences — Being a Toastmaster has disadvantages after all. I now really, really hate it when I give a speech that’s nowhere near good [...]
• 2005: Hacking for kids — O’Reilly’s looking for someone to write a book on hacking for kids. I’m all for it. I think more kids [...]
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• 2004: Today was wonderful! — I woke up late. Meep. It’s my fault Ranulf didn’t get to go to the sword museum or the flea market, [...]
• 2004: Keyword retrieval — Sim Gamboa III said: Side note: I am not remembering actually any URLs of these blogs, all I do is just fire [...]