Dave Lane @lightweight@mastodon.oeru.org

#LibreOffice is a privacy-friendly free open alternative to Microsoft Office. It's a suite of apps including a word processor, spreadsheet editor, presentation app, database editor, drawing app and maths formula editor.

It's compatible with all major document formats including Microsoft.

You can download it for Windows, Mac and Linux from the official website:

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/

#AlternativesAtoZ #DeleteMicrosoft #Word #Excel #PowerPoint #WordProcessing #Spreadsheets

Sneak preview. Very excited to launch #OER Outreach Partnership Programme in the new year. Institutions in the developing world will be able to join OERu for free! See: https://oer.nz/outreach

Exemplary presentation by #OER ambassador @thatpsychprof at UN headquarters during #OpenConUN. Thanks for the shout-out for the work #OERu is doing: https://oer.nz/1w

The real price of Free and Open Source Software is an implicit commitment to take responsibility for - and an active role in shaping - one's own digital destiny. One would hope people would do that regardless. Sadly, to date, the evidence suggests otherwise.

If you're not one of the 0.001% of the population who truly get Git (I'm not), you should watch this if you want your mind gently bent in (not always) pleasant ways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ffBJ4sVUb4 If nothing else, this offers an amazing metaphor for how the universe can achieve such amazing complexity, beauty, and depravity from a few simple, remarkably elegant rules (and nothing else) :)

From the "intellectual property is neither" department:

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/statue-of-liberty-stamp-mistake-to-cost-u-s-postal-service-3-5-million/

@radionz@twitter.com I note that you often interview lawyers on air, and often they give their opinions. Lawyers, in addition to being people, are great actors on behalf of their paying clients... and in many cases will assert things they don't personally agree with believe in support of their client's position. I've never heard an RNZ interviewer ask a lawyer to disclose whether a stated position is their own or on behalf of a client. We need to get better at highlighting conflicts of interest.

An "open community" trying to get people to join their Slack is like "tech expert" giving you their Hotmail email address...

Oops - should be OStatus, not OSocial - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OStatus And other references: fediverse - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse, ActivityPub - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub, and Matrix - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(communication_protocol), and, of course Mastodon (on which I'm publishing this post, regardless of where you see it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) - if you're curious, join this Mastodon instance: https://mastodon.nzoss.nz - I maintain it here in NZ & https://catalystcloud.nz generously provides sponsored #FOSS cloud hosting.

This set of #FOSS projects implementing ActivityPub is quite exciting to me: https://github.com/topics/activitypub

Damn, just finishing watching this - @aral droppin' some serious knowledge about our online existence here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBdfv2QTqo

Getting exited for our international partners #oeru2018 meeting later this year in Port Macquarie - hosted by Charles Sturt Uni.

#introductions Hi I'm Jayakrishnan from India and I work in the area of Teacher Professional Development.. Just logged into my mastodon instance for OERu course. Though I am more of lurker in many MOOCs, I like to explore various technologies (especially open source) and how that could be used for improving teaching-learning process.