Nate Angell: raised by wolves, accidental open-source evangelist

Our second episode features Nate Angell or @xolotl, a name that's hard to remember completely, but one that we will always remember. There's development talk later as he demonstrates the shiny, new iPhone app called iToony.

"Open Source Success," Campus Technology, 7/23/2006, http://www.campustechnology.com/article.aspx?aid=41086

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Open Source Success

7/23/2006

How to ensure a winning implementation on your campus.

Hearing Chuck Severance's presentation at JA-SIG St Paul 2008 about work on the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 2.0 (LTI) standard restarted some thinking I'd already been doing about where online learning technology is (should be?) headed.

Have you heard the news? Harvard is changing its mission statement to read: "Harvard strives to create knowledge, to open the minds of students to that knowledge, and to enable students to take best advantage of their educational opportunities, supported by a pervasive open source technology environment." Just kidding. But why wait for Harvard? It's time to move open source beyond the machine room at universities and put it into the top-level institutional strategies that support their educational mission. Here's why:

Co-Presenter: Allison Bloodworth, Senior User Interaction Designer, University of California, Berkeley

The main Program is being currently developed in four tracks:

Thanks to the University of London, I was able to try out a few open source portfolio systems, including Elgg, Mahara and Moodle.

Let's heed the call for an open source census with the open source discovery tool.

We've long been maintaining that open source technologies are in wide—and often unrecognized—use in many organizations. Now we have an initiative and a tool to help demonstrate that claim with real numbers.

After 5 years as Portland State's Director for Web Communications, I've moved on to work for The rSmart Group, a commercial provider of open source technologies working mostly in the education sector with Sakai, OSP and Kuali.