Stanford Open Source Lab

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Innovation Goes Public

The Stanford Open Source Lab is pleased to present "Innovation GoesPublic", a talk by Bruce Perens, a leader in the Free Software andOpen Source community and the creator of the Open Source Definition.Abstract:Open Source provides much of the software infrastructure for many ofthe world's largest companies and organizations: Merrill Lynch,Google, Pixar, Amazon, the City of New York, and probably you -although you might not know it. Innovative products like Linux,Firefox, and Apache are the mar...

Wikiversity, Wikipedia, and Participatory Learning

Stanford Open Source Lab presents to our second workshop entitled: Wikiversity, Wikipedia, and Participatory Learning. Our invited speakers Sue Gardner & Erik Moeller of the Wikimedia Foundation gave some fascinating insights into the foundation and its work. Also very interesting was a look into future features that will improve the wiki experience. Their talk abstract: In 2006, the Wikimedia Foundation , a non-profit organization which operates Wikipedia , launched the Wikiversity project, a...

Open Library: What it is, where it is

The Stanford Open Source Lab presents Aaron Swartz talking about The Open Library. This event took place on November 29th 2007 at Stanford University.