[Techteam] Weekend Report - due today

[Bastien]

Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com> writes:

> The first point seems solvable if they just install Java afterwards. 
> Then we don't need to worry about licenses. Its a big install but 
> probably not a deal breaker. The performance may be challenging but 
> again I think we can make it fit.

(Several persons in the learning team are interested in knowing how a
Sugar XO can effectively run java-based applications... I expect this
will be way too slow but I'd love to be wrong.)

> I'm not sure what free but not open source means. 

It generally means that it's free of charge, not free of use.  
Use = study, modify, redistribute, redistribute modified versions.

> [...]

> The pedagogical specialists here tell me that concept maps are pretty
> hot in education right now. They also pointed me to a commercial tool
> which some schools use: http://www.inspirationsoftware.com/
>
> Does anyone know of an open source solution in this area?

Freemind comes to my mind (because it also runs on wikkawiki
plat-forms), but there are a few others:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mind_mapping_software

Online (not FLOSS) tools: 

http://www.spinscape.com/
http://www.mindmeister.com/
http://www.mindjet.com/
http://www.thebrain.com/

All this being really too sparkling for my old-fashioned linear
shabby brain.

-- 
Bastien