Tuesday, December 17, 2013

My open blog on education, outreach, and open source!

Welcome!

I have finally decided to create and attempt to maintain a blog containing my musings and thoughts, which could be interesting but are random at times. My focus will be on education, outreach, and open source.  Of course I am sure I will deviate and mention space science, Christmas and other holidays, and other random things as I think of them!

Some of my goals include discussing:

  • Education and how Open Source can radically change education:
    • Open source as an opportunity for kids of all ages
    • Open source hardware:  Arduino, Maple Mini, Papilio FPGA, etc.
    • Note that I contributed a monthly article to Open Source Schools about 10 years ago
  • Outreach including:
    • The Fredericksburg Linux Users Group (FredLug)
    • The Northern Virginia Astronomy Club (NOVAC).  
  • All things Open Source including:
    • Open source software
    • Open standards 
    • My thoughts and impressions on UNIX/Xenix circa 1985 and Linux circa 1993
    • My early thoughts on open source and why it would be a game changer
  • Technology and science:
    • Hardware, software, networking, and all things Linux
    • The Technological Singularity and how technological change is exponential
    • Photography and photo editing
    • Space science and astronomy (nope, no astrology)
  • The future!

When I started this project, I posted to Facebook and asked for suggestions for naming this blog.  These are some of the comments I received:

  • Wade's World -- taken, but not bad
  • Wade's Wacky Worls -- not bad but I want to de-wackyify the blog
  • Grey matter -- Grecian Formula will cure the gray (but not the hair loss)
  • FRIED ANGRY CONGRESSMEN REVOLUTION NO SPIES PARTY BLOG -- ???
I've been mulling this over in my head for months but finally decided to take the plunge.  Join me on this venture and PLEASE provide feedback (positive and negative). 

1 comment:

  1. Try not to make it too preachy. though I could see this getting very interesting

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