[Yr11 Information Technology] OSV - Open Source catalog

[Con Zymaris]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:50:25AM +1100, Christopher Jansen wrote:
> WELL DONE THAT LIST IS GREAT!!!
> 
> anyone that has not taken a look at this.. go and have a look now. the
> second link
> http://www.cybersource.com.au/about/education_FOSS_catalog.pdf
> is the only one that works.

There will be a new version with the recent suggested modifications 
uploaded to this address soon.

> I wonder if we could set up a wiki site that we could all edit listing all
> the all the free and non-free educational software. There could also be
> seconds listing our experience with the software. How well the kids took to
> it and so on....

That's one idea, but we would still need to inject those wiki contents 
back into something which 'mimics' a glossy colour catalog, which is the 
aim of this exercise. 

Another approach is that we will be making the actual source document (SXW
& ODT) available.  People who want to contribute can then either download
the whole source document and make many modifications and then
redistribute that, or they can download a single page sampler of the
layout, and use that to create entries for their own favourite open source
applications, then feed that back to OSV for inclusion in the canonical
document.

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