Re: [Edu-sig] open source admin in academia? (editorial)

2010-07-20 Thread kirby urner
Ah yes, MUMPS. I have some history around that one. It haunts me. Poor Haiti. Kirby On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 04:34, kirby urner wrote: >> I like to see universities taking the lead in some way... >> (they call it "non-commercial"), eat

Re: [Edu-sig] open source admin in academia? (editorial)

2010-07-20 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 04:34, kirby urner wrote: > I like to see universities taking the lead in some way... > (they call it "non-commercial"), eating their own dog food. > > Same thing with hospitals.  They seem to not want to > develop much inhouse, even for research -- or maybe > I've not been

Re: [Edu-sig] source code from SA:10648

2010-07-20 Thread Calcpage
Regarding your discussion of Grace Hopper, you may find the videos I posted on YouTube of interest: http://www.youtube.com/cistheta2007 HTH, A. Jorge Garcia Applied Math & CS Baldwin SHS & Nassau CC http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 Sent from my iPod On Jul

Re: [Edu-sig] open source admin in academia? (editorial)

2010-07-20 Thread kirby urner
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Jarrod Millman wrote: > Hello, > > There are several open source, community developed projects > widely-used in higher ed.  For example, moodle is a widely-used course > management system: >  http://moodle.com/ > Sakai is another course management system for use i