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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:60.0pt">HFOSS @ BCC </span></b><span style="font-size:60.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Humanitarian Free and Open-Source Software Workshop at Bergen Community College
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Saturday, April 2, 2011 – 8:00am – 1:00pm
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">400 Paramus Road, Paramus, NJ 07652 – Technology Education Center – Room 128
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Join us for a half-day at Bergen Community College where we will explore the Open-Source world and share experiences getting students involved in real-world software projects
that often have humanitarian goals in mind. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">What you will gain from this workshop:
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<p class="Default" style="margin-bottom:1.5pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- A set of take-away open-source lesson plans you can use right away that get your students using and, perhaps, contributing to and/or creating
open-source software projects. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-bottom:1.5pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- Exposure to App Inventor, Google’s visually-oriented open-source product for developing applications for Android smart phones.
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<p class="Default" style="margin-bottom:1.5pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- An introduction to what Open-Source is all about: history, goals, accomplishments
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<p class="Default" style="margin-bottom:1.5pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- Practical ideas for exploring open-source products, especially in environments with limited resources and/or heavy security restrictions
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Testimonials from colleagues and students who are using and/or working on real-world open-source software projects
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Explore this fascinating world of freely available products and platforms that will excite and engage your students. The Open-Source software movement has been thriving for
close to 30 years and in the last 10 years has emerged as an important enterprise-level player, providing solutions to business, industry, education and government across a wide variety of platforms and environments.
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Guest speakers include:
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<p class="Default" style="margin-bottom:1.35pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> - Prof. Ralph Morelli, Trinity College, Hartford, CT; founding member of the HFOSS project.
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<p class="Default" style="margin-bottom:1.35pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> - Prof. Heidi Ellis, Western New England College; founding member of the HFOSS project.
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> - Prof. Greg Hislop, iSchool, Drexel University
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">See the attached agenda for details.
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">For more information and details, please contact us:
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:inf@bergen.edu">inf@bergen.edu</a>
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Bill Madden, Associate Professor Anita Verno, Associate Professor
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Bergen Community College Bergen Community College
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">400 Paramus Road, Paramus, NJ 07652 400 Paramus Road, Paramus, NJ 07652
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">201-493-3573 201-447-7909
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<p class="MsoNormal">bmadden@bergen.edu averno@bergen.edu<o:p></o:p></p>
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