New Stand-alone K-12 Open Source Community

You might know that one of the professional hats I wear is as the director of CoSN.org's K-12 Open Technologies Initiative. I also run the Open Source Pavilions and speaker series at the CUE.org and NECC ed tech conferences.

I've felt for a while that the time is right for users of Free and Open Source Software in K-12 to have their own network. So I've done some reconfiguring with my www.K12OpenSource.com domain, creating a collaborative site which I hope will help to build the Free and Open Source Software ecosystem in K-12. The wiki that was previously there is now at http://wiki.k12opensource.com/, and I've set up a Ning community just for Open Source in K-12 at http://community.K12OpenSource.com/.

I hope you'll come join the community, and while we can still have discussions on Open Source at Classroom 2.0, that having a separate network will increase exposure and activity. Open Source deserves a bigger stage! And we'll also need some folks to start groups around favorite software programs--I hope you'll consider coming and doing that!

http://community.k12opensource.com

Steve

Steve Hargadon
Founder, Classroom 2.0
steve@hargadon.com