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1. K12> Summer Technology Conference for Teachers
2. UPDATED> May/June Issue of The Technology Source
3. MISC> [netsites] Internet ScamBusters
4. MISC> [netsites] The Cranes
5. RESOUR> [netsites] Office of Generic Drugs
6. K12> Hit: arts webquests
7. MISC> [WebSiteDaily] Sixth Annual Webby Awards Nominees
8. K12> HIT: Fashion/Costume History Websites
9. K12> Re: Web Thumbnails of clip art
10. K12> Re: Cool things to do with MS Paint - 2 msgs
11. MISC> [netsites] HouseCall (free online virus scanner)
12. K12> [netsites] Online Award Maker
13. K12> Frontier House lesson two
14. MISC> [DIGITALDIVIDE] OPENOFFICE.ORG COMMUNITY ANNOUNCES OPENOFFICE.ORG
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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 07:26:55 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Summer Technology Conference for Teachers
From: "EDTECH Editor-Eiffert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:34:29 -0400
Subject: Summer Technology Conference for Teachers
From: John Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Connecticut Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) is hosting its
first technology conference for teachers this June.
at: Miss Porters School in Farmington, CT.
on: June 24-28
CAIS invites teachers from all schools - public, parochial and independent -
from Connecticut and elsewhere to join us during a week of learning and sharing.
Workshops in English, history, science, math, foreign language and web
design, and a special workshop for elementary school teachers, will
emphasize skills and techniques that will enrich your teaching and make
learning more engaging for your students. Each day will include two or more
hands-on workshops led by an accomplished teacher. All we ask you to bring
is a desire to learn and a willingness to share your own ideas on technology
in teaching with fellow participants.
Other conference strands include specialized workshops in Photoshop,
Networking, Adobe Illustrator and more...
Please visit the conference website for details:
http://www.caisct.org/events/teaching.htm
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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 07:27:18 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UPDATED> May/June Issue of The Technology Source
From: "James L. Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:24:29 -0400
Subject: May/June Issue of The Technology Source
Below is a description of the May/June 2002 issue of The Technology
Source, a free, refereed, e-journal at
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=issue&id=145
Please forward this announcement to colleagues who are interested in using
information technology tools more effectively in their work.
As always, we seek illuminating articles that will assist educators as
they face the challenge of using information technology tools in teaching
and in managing educational organizations. Please review our call for
manuscripts at http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=call and send me a note
if you would like to contribute such an article.
Many thanks.
Jim
--
James L. Morrison
Editor-in-Chief
The Technology Source
http://ts.mivu.org
Phone/Fax: 919.493.1834
Home Page: http://horizon.unc.edu
IN THIS ISSUE:
In an interview with James Morrison, Eduprise founder William Graves
discusses the current state of today's learning economy. Focusing on the
perspectives of four groups of players in the field--students,
instructors, institutions, and policymakers--Graves considers the impact
of technology on these groups, and reflects upon the further changes in
store for higher education. See
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=989
Chris O'Hagan explores the aims and methods of institutions with apparent
global ambitions to determine how such universities might influence the
trajectory of conventional schools. O'Hagan suggests that highly selective
institutions protective of their elite reputations may have something to
worry about as globalization offers broader access to educational,
intellectual, and economic opportunities. See
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=906
George Lorenzo provides an up-to-date overview of eArmyU, a program in
which the U.S. Army has established partnerships with a range of service
providers, technical and managerial support services, and educational
institutions to provide online learning opportunities for its personnel.
For institutions looking ahead to the future of education, eArmyU
represents a promising catalyst for the further expansion of online
learning. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=998
In his case study, Gregory A. DeBourgh illustrates how a course management
system offered some simple, yet elegant possibilities for managing the
complex data in his clinical nursing course. With a threefold focus on
multimode instruction, interactive discussion, and self-regulated,
reflective learning, DeBourgh shows how these tools provided a crucial
means to realize such pedagogical principles. See
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=925
Celina Byers suggests that whereas instructors usually grade students
periodically and solicit feedback in summative evaluations at the end of
the semester, Web-based tools can facilitate interactive assessment
throughout the course. Instructors who have wished for better ways to
gauge learning during the semester, rather than after it, will not want to
miss this article. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=928
If online courses show higher rates of attrition than traditional courses,
can we conclude that online courses are not as good? David P. Diaz
proposes that drop rates have a crucial relationship with the typical
characteristics and circumstances of online learners--factors that do not
translate into either their quality of learning or their ability to
succeed. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=981
In his commentary, George Watson discusses how technology can enhance
problem-based learning (PBL)-a form of learning whereby students acquire
life-long thinking and problem-solving skills by focusing their efforts on
"real world" problems. Watson describes his use of a course Web site,
electronic communication among student groups, controlled discussion
forums, collaborative space, and whiteboard capabilities to enhance a PBL
course. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=969
To discover how online instructors use tools designed for the Web, Lucio
Teles and his colleagues gathered survey data from a range of instructors
around the globe. Their results show that instructors especially favor
tools offering flexibility and easy access to the online classroom, as
well as those supporting the flow of communication and the sense of
community. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=966
For his spotlight site review, Stephen Downes chose The Centre for
Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS), a
comprehensive, current site devoted to learning objects and content
management systems. For serious (though not necessarily expert)
investigators, CETIS features authoritative articles and links to relevant
news items, with brief summaries written by a knowledgeable staff. See
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1007
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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 07:27:44 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] Internet ScamBusters
From: "Foggy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:33:46 -0700
Subject: [netsites] Internet ScamBusters
Internet ScamBustersTM
"The #1 Publication on Internet Fraud"
http://www.scambusters.org/
-Foggy-
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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 07:28:48 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] The Cranes
From: "Colin Ransinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:46:08 -0700
Subject: [netsites] The Cranes
The Cranes
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/birds/cranes/cranes.htm
"A broad overview of the conservation biology of cranes and detailed
individual accounts for each of the fifteen crane species."
Colin Ransinger
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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 07:29:18 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RESOUR> [netsites] Office of Generic Drugs
From: "Dr. Y U Morostay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:32:20 -0700
Subject: [netsites] Office of Generic Drugs
Office of Generic Drugs
http://www.fda.gov/cder/ogd/
"A generic drug is identical, or bioequivalent to a brand name drug in
dosage form, safety, strength, route of administration, quality, performance
characteristics and intended use. Although generic drugs are chemically
identical to their branded counterparts, they are typically sold at
substantial discounts from the branded price. According to the Congressional
Budget Office, generic drugs save consumers an estimated $8 to $10
billion a year at retail pharmacies. Even more billions are saved when hospitals
use generics.
Dr. Yennea U. Morostay
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http://morostay.dermdex.net/
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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 07:30:38 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Hit: arts webquests
From: "Pat Elliott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 22:04:04 -0400
Subject: Hit: arts webquests
Here are the collected webquests for the arts:
Opera Webquest
http://www.guilford.k12.nc.us/webquests/opera/opera.htm
Everything of the piano
http://library.thinkquest.org/28619/?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0430
Welcome to music notes
http://library.thinkquest.org/15413/?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0430
Country Music Webquest
http://www.pampetty.com/countrymusic.htm
World Music Webquest
http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Stu/mandries/wq1.html
Musical era webquest
http://4dw.net/besteacher/MusicWebquest/MusicWebquest.html#Quest(ions)
Art for Sale
http://www.itdc.sbcss.k12.ca.us/curriculum/artforsale.html
The world of puppets
http://www.itdc.sbcss.k12.ca.us/curriculum/puppetry.html
Art gallery exhibit webquest
http://www.richmond.edu/academics/a&s/education/projects/webquests/gallery/W
ebQuest.html
Radio Days: A Webquest
http://www.branson.k12.mo.us/langarts/radio/radio.htm
Some links are dead but a good idea.
WebQuests
http://www.d303.org/schools/scn/stcnlrc/webquests.htm
Many subject areas.
Eyes on Art
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/art2/
Pat Elliott
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http://edselect.com
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man
who never does anything."
- President Theodore Roosevelt
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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 08:35:12 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [WebSiteDaily] Sixth Annual Webby Awards Nominees
From: "azreporter.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [WebSiteDaily] Sixth Annual Webby Awards Nominees
Sixth Annual Webby Awards(R) Announce Nominees
http://www.azreporter.com/entertainment/awards/news/webbyawards.html
Reflecting a year that saw the Web play an increasingly vital role in
everyday life, sites as disparate as The Vatican and Planned Parenthood
and the Peace Corps and the U.S. Army are among the 140 nominees
competing for The 6th Annual Webby Awards, The International Academy of
Digital Arts & Sciences® announced today.
James Good - Editor of the web newsroom @ azreporter.com
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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 08:35:46 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> HIT: Fashion/Costume History Websites
From: "Carolyn Gierke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wed, 1 May 2002 08:36:33 -0400
Subject: HIT: Fashion/Costume History Websites
Here are the responses. Thanks for the replies.
Fashion/Costume History
The Costumer's Manifesto
http://www.costumes.org/
Probably the best costume site on the web.
Digital History of Fashion
http://www.furman.edu/~kgossman/history/index.html
Scroll to the end to learn hoe to navigate the site.
The Costume Gallery
http://www.costumegallery.com/
Over 1000 web pages and 2,500 images of fashion and costume.
Go here: http://www.costumegallery.com/1900.html for 20th century fashion.
History of Fashion Homepage
http://www2.oneonta.edu/~angellkg/index.html
Click on an era to see slide of fashions. Takes a little time to load,
but worth it.
History of Fashion and Dress Main Page
http://www.costumes.org/pages/fashiondress/thr355main.htm
This is an outline for a college course - really neat text and images in
the weekly lessons. Be sure to use this!
Vintage Fashion History
http://home.att.net/~design-house/history_pg_five.htm
Strictly wedding gowns. The page from the 1960's and 1970's contains some
social info, too.
Hold on to Your Hats
http://www.civilization.ca/hist/hats/hat00eng.html
History of headwear in Canada.
The Costume Page
http://members.aol.com/nebula5/costume.html
Over 2000 links to costume web sites.
Elizabethan Costuming Page
http://www.dnaco.net./~aleed/corsets/general.html
History of Costume
http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html
Ancient costume guide. Scroll down to the graphic or text index links.
The Museum of Costume
http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk/
"In theory, there isn't any difference between theory and practice. In
practice, there is." - Yogi Berra
Mrs. Carolyn Gierke, Librarian
Sweet Home High School
1901 Sweet Home Road
Amherst, NY 14228
Phone: 1-716-250-1227
FAX: 1-716-250-1360
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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 08:41:51 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Re: Web Thumbnails of clip art
From: "EDTECH Editor-Beil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:25:53 -0400
Subject: Re: Web Thumbnails of clip art
From: Richard L Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Craig Nansen asked about a program that will allow the creation of
thumbnail web pages for clip art.
A neat graphics program that I use that has the "right" price, too, is
IrfanView. It is FREE to private users or educational institutions. In the
USA one can download it from TUCOWS, but go to the site in Luxembourg to
find out all about it and to get to the appropriate download sites.
To make a thumbnail page: go to File/Thumbnails and go to the folder where
the art work is. Then select the thumbnails that you want on the page from
those generate and go to the File menu and select "Save selected thumbs as
HTML file." A dialogue box with lots of options will show up. And the
project is done in less than a minute. Some editing of the final web page
can be done.
Richard Bowman
Prof of Physics / Dir of Acad Comp
Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA 22812 USA
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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 08:43:06 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Re: Cool things to do with MS Paint - 2 msgs
From: "EDTECH Editor-Beil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:23:45 -0400
Subject: Re: Cool things to do with MS Paint
From: "Norton, Glenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Try:
<http://www.teachingchildrenjesus.com/arts_n_crafts.htm>
<http://members.tripod.com/dianajhunter/>
<http://www.fayette.k12.il.us/99/paint/paint.htm>
<http://www.aboutmspaint.com/>
<http://mentor.coe.uwf.edu/expressyourself/tutorials/painttutorial.htm>
Glenna
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From: Sue Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
Was this it?
http://members.tripod.com/dianajhunter/
These are good too.
http://cyber.lenoir.k12.nc.us/khs/croberts/roberts2.html
http://www.ptsd.mb.ca/elemfiles.html
Sue Harper
St. Paul School
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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 08:43:24 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] HouseCall (free online virus scanner)
From: "Foggy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:26:47 -0700
Subject: [netsites] HouseCall (free online virus scanner)
HouseCall: Trend Micro's free online virus scanner.
http://housecall.antivirus.com/
-Foggy-
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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 08:44:00 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> [netsites] Online Award Maker
From: "Foggy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:01:43 -0700
Subject: [netsites] Online Award Maker
Online Award Maker
http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/awardmaker/index.tem
Our online award maker lets you reward students for a job well done-by
creating free, customized award certificates right from your computer!
Just follow the simple steps to design the certificate any way you like, then
print it out...and you're done!
-Foggy-
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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 09:37:24 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Frontier House lesson two
From: "Kathryn Martinez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wed, 1 May 2002 10:24:32 -0400
”Frontier House” by PBS: Lesson Two
http://www.easyfunschool.com/article2247.html
This is the second in a series of three lessons that you can adapt to use
with the PBS Special “Frontier House.”
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Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 09:53:26 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [DIGITALDIVIDE] OPENOFFICE.ORG COMMUNITY ANNOUNCES
OPENOFFICE.ORG 1.O: FREE OFFICE PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE
From: "Jacqueline McNally" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wed, 1 May 2002 22:29:09 +0800
Subject: [DIGITALDIVIDE] OPENOFFICE.ORG COMMUNITY ANNOUNCES OPENOFFICE.ORG 1.O: FREE
OFFICE PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE
OpenOffice.org
MEDIA RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OPENOFFICE.ORG COMMUNITY ANNOUNCES OPENOFFICE.ORG 1.O: FREE OFFICE
PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE
Global Community builds full-featured office suite with revolutionary momentum
Perth, Australia (May 1, 2002) - The OpenOffice.org community
(http://www.openoffice.org/) today announced the availability of
OpenOffice.org 1.0, the open source, multi-platform, multi-lingual office
productivity suite available as a free download at the OpenOffice.org
community website. OpenOffice.org 1.0 is the culmination of more than 18
months of collaborative effort by members of the OpenOffice.org community,
which is comprised of Sun employees, volunteer developers, marketers, and
end users working to create an international office suite that will run on
all major platforms.
OpenOffice.org 1.0, which shares the same code base as Sun's StarOffice 6.0
is -- like StarOffice 6.0 -- a full-featured office suite that provides a
near drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org 1.0 offers
consumers and businesses software freedom, enabling a free market for
service and support, while the Sun-branded product, StarOffice 6.0, offers
24x7 fee-based support and training for consumers and businesses, along
with deployment and migration services. StarOffice also offers additional
features, such as a database, special fonts and Sun quality and assurance
testing.The two office suites complement each other, meeting the varying
needs of consumers, open source advocates and enterprise customers.
"OpenOffice.org 1.0 may be the single best hope for consumers fed-up with
Microsoft's desktop monopoly," said Eric Raymond, co-founder of the Open
Source Initiative (OSI). "With Sun moving to a full service and support
business model for StarOffice, users around the globe will continue to have
a free office productivity software tool through the OpenOffice.org open
source community."
The OpenOffice.org 1.0 office suite features key desktop applications --
including word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and drawing programs --
in more than 25 languages. In addition, OpenOffice.org 1.0 works
transparently with a variety of file formats, enabling users familiar with
other office suites, such as Microsoft Office and StarOffice, to work
seamlessly in the application. The OpenOffice.org 1.0 software runs stably
and natively on multiple platforms, including Linux, PPC Linux, Solaris,
Windows and many other flavours of Unix.
OpenOffice.org is the largest open source project with more than 7.5
million lines of code. To date, more than 4.5 million downloads of earlier
versions of OpenOffice.org 1.0 have taken place. With the release of the
1.0 version, the OpenOffice.org community expects that number to grow
significantly as businesses and individuals around the world explore the
free alternative to proprietary office suites.
The OpenOffice.org Community
In less than two years, the OpenOffice.org community has grown to more than
10,000 volunteers, working together to build the leading international
office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all
functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based
file format. Sun initiated this effort by donating the StarOffice source
code and engineering to the OpenOffice.org community. One of the major
benefits of community-based development is peer review, which has resulted
in a stable, secure and flexible software package.
Participants in the Community work on projects ranging from code
development to porting and localisation, to bug reporting, documentation,
product marketing, local language sites and mirror sites for software download.
"There are many important roles that volunteer developers can play to shape
the future functionality of OpenOffice.org (OOo) so if you are looking for
someplace to contribute, OOo can use you," said Kevin Hendricks, a key
contributor to the OpenOffice.org community since its inception nearly two
years ago. Hendricks has lead volunteer development teams for both the
OpenOffice.org 1.0 spellchecker and PPC Linux port projects.
"When OpenOffice.org was released, it was a tremendous amount of code with
a very deep history, and thus we knew it would take a lot of time and
effort to reach a critical mass of community participation," said Brian
Behlendorf, CTO and co-founder, CollabNet. "The project has now attracted
a significant amount of outside involvement, some of it in pretty
interesting areas like marketing and quality assurance. With the release of
1.0, it's clear those efforts are bearing real fruit. Congratulations to
the community -- and to Sun -- for making this
happen."
CollabNet's SourceCast application enables both centralised and
geographically distributed software development teams to collaborate on
OpenOffice.org projects and to track them accurately. SourceCast is the
premier Web-based collaboration environment, which includes an integrated
set of software development applications. CollabNet also provides strategic
advice on open source issues and the growth of OpenOffice.org, and offers
analysis on current trends within the community.
"OpenOffice.org may be the most important open source project right now,
said Miguel de Icaza, founder of the GNOME project. Because people will try
it and see they can get everyday work done without giving more money to
Microsoft, they'll see -- in a low-risk way -- that open source software
can work for them and be an even better solution.
About OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org is the home of the open source project and its community of
developers, users and marketers responsible for the on-going development of
the OpenOffice.org 1.0 product. The mission of OpenOffice.org is to create,
as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all
major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through
open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. Additional ports,
such as FreeBSD, IRIX and Mac OS X are in various stages of completion by
developers and end-users in the OpenOffice.org community. OpenOffice.org
1.0 is written in C++ and has documented API's licensed under the GNU
Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and Sun Industry Standards Source
License (SISSL) open source licenses.
About CollabNet
CollabNet provides companies with solutions for collaborative software
development by combining a Web-based software application with a suite of
consulting services. Using these solutions, customers can collaborate on
development projects within an enterprise, with customers, business
partners, or with third party developer organisations, such as industry
specific or open source communities. CollabNet enables corporations to
reduce costs and increase revenues by bringing different project team
members together, regardless of their location. CollabNet is currently
working with customers ranging from hardware and software providers to
companies from industries such as financial services, wireless, and
pharmaceuticals. Brian Behlendorf, co-founder of the Apache Software
Foundation, established CollabNet in July 1999. For more information, see
http://www.collab.net/.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
ComputerTM" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW) to its
position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software
and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to take
their businesses to the nth. Sun can be found in more than 170 countries
and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com/.
MEDIA RELEASE CONTACT:
Jacqueline McNally
Community Contact, Australia/New Zealand
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project
Jacqueline McNally
+61 8 9474 3021 (GMT +0800)
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