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Introduction to Open Standards and Open Source Software
- Tuesday, November 21 2006 @ 02:31 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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Summary:
Avoid vendor lock-in. Preserve your ability to access your own data into perpetuity. Adopt open standards.
The slides are posted on the web:
UPDATE 10.17.2012 - The original links fell victim to Internet Information Decay. I mirrored a copy of the presentation here:
Introduction to Open Standards and Open Source Software (PDF)
These original links to the presentation are (sadly) no longer active:
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/omt/presenta...ndards.odp (Open Document)
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/omt/presenta...ndards.ppt (Microsoft PowerPoint)
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/omt/presenta...ndards.pdf (PDF)
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Go Open Source videos
- Tuesday, November 21 2006 @ 02:26 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
- Views: 2,519

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/linux/go_open_source.htm
UPDATE 05.01.2013 - The original fast mirror I posted has been taken down. The go_open videos are apparently still available in the Internet Archive at:
http://archive.org/details/go_open_season_1
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Gator Linux User Group (GatorLUG)
- Thursday, August 17 2006 @ 08:06 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
- Views: 4,488
http://www.gatorlug.org/
Here is their cool logo:

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