Workshop on FLOSS

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Original Proposal: CW 2007 FLOSS Workshop

Contents 1 Schedule 2 Other stuff 3 Sources 4 CDs

Schedule

Workshop: 1:00-5:00, 17 May 2007

• 1:00-1:15 Introduction and introductions
  • go around the room, say a little about yourself
  • Overview of workshop, open source philosophy (this needs to be brief)
• 1:15-2:00 OpenOffice
  • Introduction to OpenOffice interface -- ~15 minutes (Bradley)
  • NeoOffice vs OpenOffice differences (Jeremy)
  • styles, tables, and indexes -- ~30 minutes (Bradley)
  • Impress -- 10 minutes (Charlie)
  • Ask participants which tools they're the most interested in
• 2:00-2:45 individual work with OpenOffice
• 2:45-3:00 Break
• 3:00-3:45 Other desktop apps
  • Audacity (Matt, Clancy)
  • NVU (previously Netscape Composer for HTML) -- Keith
  • Gimp (Charlie, Bradley)
  • The Other Apps 10 minutes: PDF Creator(Charlie), Scribus(Charlie), Filezilla (Matt), Freemind (Jeremy), Portable Apps (Charlie), 7-Zip (Charlie), Pigdin (Jeremy).
• 3:45-4:30 Individual work with Audacity, Nvu, Gimp, etc.
• 4:30-4:50 Web apps
  • phpSurveyor (Jeremy)
  • Drupal, Plone, CMS (Charlie)
  • Wordpress (Bradley)
  • Wikis (Matt)
• 4:50-5:00 Open source rocks

Other software to consider:

• Firefox browser -- 15 minutes, especially its ability to update itself --
• JaMOOka (Java MOOclient applet) -- Keith, 15 minutes (could be 30 mins if you include programming)

Other stuff

What else are we covering? Firefox? GIMP? Drupal? Moodle?

Keith says, I can add or cut to this as we wish,and can place it elsewhere (but if we do JaMOOka, AcadianaMOO makes sense since we offer our services at no cost to all and sundry):

http://acadianamoo.org/FLOSS.html

I think we should build in about 20 minutes at the end to talk about how to use the tools for pedagogy -- to drive home the points about technological literacy, learning to learn new software, transferable skill sets, advantages of open source for small, underfunded universities, etc.

Why not let the presenters responsible for the various applications build in pedagogical advice as they see fit? Makes more sense to me do so in the context of the particular application. (Charlie)

Sources

OpenOffice

http://openoffice.org/

http://download.openoffice.org/2.2.0/index.html

NeoOffice

http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php

http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/download.php

Audacity

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

NVU

http://www.nvu.com/index.php

http://forum.nvudev.org/

The Gimp

http://www.gimp.org/

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/

7-Zip

http://www.7-zip.org/

Filezilla

http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

Freemind

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

PDFCreator

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Pidgin (formerly Gaim)

http://www.pidgin.im/

PortableApps.com

http://portableapps.com/

Scribus

http://www.scribus.net/

WordPress

http://wordpress.com/

http://wordpress.org/

http://wordpress.org/download/

Drupal

http://drupal.org/

Linux installation stuff

http://www.ubuntu.com/

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

http://www.livedistro.org/

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

CDs

Are we still distributing CDs?

At this late date, CDs including relevant applications would be a problem since they should be created before the conference and distributed at the workshop and be multiplatfrom. How about a web page?

How about we bring blank CDs and make custom discs for folks who need it?

We should also hand out Ubuntu, since it is a cool dual Linux and Windows CD.