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Entries for 15 November 2007
Seneca College and open source education
I spent October 25 and 26 in Toronto attending the FSOSS 2007 conference put on by Seneca College. I didn't attend the conference primarily to hear the conference presentations; my main aim was to talk with the people associated with two projects that the Mozilla Foundation has funded, namely the Mozilla-related educational activities at Seneca College and the Mozilla-related accessibility work at the University of Toronto's Adaptive Technology Resource Centre.
However as it turns out some of the presentations I saw had interesting connections with my Seneca and ATRC discussions. In this post I'll give my thoughts on how Seneca's efforts relate to the broader world of business and education. (Note that these are my personal opinions only, and do not necessarily reflect the positions of the Mozilla Foundation or Seneca College.) ...
mozilla/seneca-college-and-open-source-education
2007-11-15