Shared Governance Transparency, Public Data, No Vendor Lock-in and you save your Taxpayers Millions!… Kudos Rio de Janeiro!

Now, how about we do this in Texas!

Read the full post here: http://www.opensource.org/node/593

Here is some of the feedback we received from the students on the last day of TexOS Project 1.

These are in no order and are a mix of responses from “Things you Learned” and “Things you Enjoyed”

• “How to Live Boot”
• “Learned what Proprietary means”
• “Learned that Windows in Proprietary”
• “How to Install and Update”
• “Being able to watch Movies” [Open Source Movie Projects: Big Buck Bunny & Sintel]
• “Keystrokes”
• “Teachers”
• “What Open Source Software is”
• “The opportunity to learn all this”
• “Being able to meet Mr. Beck and Dr. Wegner”
• “I enjoyed learning how to make videos, create presentations and installing things on the computer”
• “How to LiveBoot, install programs, and access the terminal.”
• “Playing Games”
• “How to edit Videos”
• “being out of the house ”
• “Software Manager”
• “How technology works”
• “How to download things to my flashdrive”
• “Learned how to make the screen rotate [Compiz Effects]“
• “Making new Friends”

“Open Source Software is a mindset; it’s about innovating,” Beck said. “You’re literally given the tools to create something new. It’s about sharing, collaborating, innovating and creating.”

View the complete interview here:
http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2011/oct/25/collaborate-innovate-create-new-computers-new/