Wednesday, February 20, 2013

SchoolTool Feature on opensource.com

Me:

In 2005, Arlington Career Center teacher David Welsh had an unmanageable list of 77 Video and Media Technology competencies to evaluate for each student in his classes. A Yorktown High School computer science teacher Jeff Elkner was teaching his students to program in Python and bursting with enthusiasm for engaging students and teachers in open source processes. I had a new job leading the SchoolTool project with a charge from entrepreneur and philanthropist Mark Shuttleworth to create open source administrative software for schools around the world.

I let them make up the title, which is inappropriately buzz-wordy, but then again, that's why I let other people make up titles, so they can throw in catchy buzz words I can't bring myself to.

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