More than "I can use your slides"

Published on October 29, 2014.

A few days ago a friend of mine, Greg Wilson, wrote about his Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship Application. Here are some of my thoughts after read Greg's application.

Technology

Greg's said that

Open education shouldn't mean "I can use your slides", but rather, "We can all work together to make those slides (and exercises, and videos) better for everyone." The technical tools for doing this have been around for years; I think they can help educators just as much as they've helped programmers, but somebody has to get the ball rolling.

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Responsive Design and Math

Published on October 24, 2014.

From Wikipedia

"Responsive web design (RWD) is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from mobile phones to desktop computer monitors)."

Responsive design is a nice feature for web pages and EPUBs. At this post you will get an overview of the status of responsive design for math.

The Status of Math in Open Access

Published on October 22, 2014.

This week, October 20–26, 2014, held the Open Access Week (see the announcement) and will end with Mozilla Festival that has a awesome science track. This post has some thoughts about math and open access and this two events.

Open Access and Math

From Budapest Open Access Initiative we have

"By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited."

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O Estado da Matemática no Acesso Aberto

Published on October 22, 2014.

Nessa semana, 20-26 de Outubro de 2014, ocorre a Open Access Week (veja o anúncio) e termina com o Mozilla Festival que possui uma ótima trilha de ciência. Este post possui alguns pensamentos sobre matemática, acesso aberto e esses dois eventos.

Acesso Aberto e Matemática

Da Budapest Open Access Initiative temos

"By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited."

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GitWeb

Published on October 20, 2014.

GitWeb é o “servidor” padrão para o Git. Neste post você encontra como configurá-lo na sua máquina (porque eu sempre tive dificuldade em fazê-lo).

Instalação

Você precisa instalar:

• servidor http (iremos utilizar o Nginx)
• git e git-daemon
• gitweb
• fcgiwrap e spawn-fcgi

No Debian:

# apt-get install nginx git git-daemon-run gitweb fcgiwrap spawn-fcgi

No ArchLinux:

# pacman -S nginx git fcgiwrap spawn-fcgi
# yaourt -S gitweb

Configuração do Git Daemon

O objetivo do Git Daemon é permitir que pessoas clonem seus repositórios utilizando: