Software and Collaboration in Higher Education: A Study of Open Source Software by Paul N. Couran (Principal Investigator) and Rebecca J. Griffith. Accirding to Eric Schnell's blog, this report reference Open Source OPACS (http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/2006/08/are-opac-vendors-days-numbered.html)
"An Indian village has uploaded itself onto the Internet, giving the outside world a glimpse of life in rural India." This is interesting to see such placesget a web presensce. It will be fun to follow and see f it has any effect on the village.
"Following on from GNOME's participation in Google's Summer of Code, we've decided to sponsor three projects in a similar fashion to the Summer of Code, but for women only. GNOME had no Summer of Code applications from women, and we think it's time to do something to encourage more women to join our development community"
"What is Go Girl? It's a Careers Showcase for female students in Western Australian High Schools, to present the many faces of the Information, Communication and Technology Industry."
"PortForward.com is proud to offer help setting up port forwarding on your router or firewall. Many Internet users are not aware of how to configure their router or firewall in order to use applications like Peer-to-Peer file sharing (PtoP), Internet Games, Web serving, FTP serving, WebCams, IRC DDC, and Instant Messaging such as AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and MS Messenger." There is many screen shots and detailed directions. If you have a cable or dsl connection and need to set up port forwarding, this is the site to check out!
Video of a 2002 speech by Virginia Valian (Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)). The lecture is about research why woman are slow to advance in all fields.