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Bren Smith writes about his transformation of resource-hunting fishermen to ecological sustainable ocean farmers, using open source ideology to share techniques and knowledge between his fellows.

William Stein writes about replacing closed-source math software in schools with open-source math software SageMath and SageMathCloud

Hal Plotkin compares the push for closed-source digital education material owned by profit-seeking ed-tech companies with the situation of pharma industry and public funded, privately owned research in the field gene technology

ReactOS: Building a Free-Licensed Windows

Can Kenya’s Laptops For Schools Project Deliver Greater Learning Efficiency?

Can Internatiolnalized Domain Names with non-english characters open up internet access to millions of Swahili speakers in countries like Tanzania?

During the 10th Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Brazil (2015), I happened to be a panelist on a workshop that I had helped organize. Amongst the panelists were ICT4D experts Dr. Mikhail Komarov, Patrick Ryan of Google, Sarah Kiden of the Uganda Christian University, just to mention a few. The workshop sought to answer the question of whether Open Educational Resources (OERs) could bridge the digital divide gap, especially in the Global South..

Academic learning is usually in the spotlight at school, but teaching elementary-age students “soft” skills like self-control and how to get along with others might help to keep at-risk kids out of criminal trouble in the future, a study finds.

Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde served his prison sentence last year but still owes the entertainment industries millions in damages. Some might think that he's learned his lesson, but with a newly built copying machine he's generating millions of extra 'damages,' which might be worth a mention in the Guinness Book of Records.

A Different Approach to Coding - How kids are making and remaking themselves from Scratch

There’s no question that computer science skills are helping students succeed. But, computer science is about more than just learning to program. Students also need to learn how to think programmatically, to use programming as a problem-solving tool, and to understand the global impact of computer science and computing

When kids can get their lessons from the Internet, what's left for classroom instructors to do?

report from CoderDojo Bologna, Italy: teaching young Coder-"Ninjas" the art of programming

Lacey Williams Henschel draws fascinating parallels between coding python and writing novels, and explores the connection of style guides for for both.

Article in progress, first videos online: Derek Breen teaching Scratch in Moscow and meeting very intersting robot geeks

Heloisa ZAL reports about her voyage to Cape Town, South Africa, where she helped during Africa Code Week to teach children about Scratch and coding.

Lucy (student at spielend-programmieren programming courses) makes her first interview with Derek Breen about his book: Scratch for kids for dummies

Report of my visit to the Maker Faire Rome 2015 with many photos and some personal impressions of Rome, Italians and the Maker movement. Enriched with travel tips, a promise to come back next year and "how to troll the press center" and "how to make Makers happy" tutorials.

Impressions of the "zam spielen #10" social computer game event in Vienna with photos.

Agnese Addone tells what happened at the Scratch conference Amsterdam 2015

Horst tells his report of the Scratch conference in Amsterdam 2015: Turtlestitch Workshop, cool stuff from the MIT media lab, 3D turtles and upcoming visual programming languages.

A quick look into two interesting, open-source aware websites to learn and train coding skills: codecombat.com and codewars.com

Impressions of the open source/open hardware camera project AXIOM (seen on Linuxtage Wien) and axiom teams' insights given in a talk about crowdfunding

report: first internet of things day event in Vienna was a smashing success with over 500 people attending and many talks and open source projects.