Patrick Masson

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Albany, New York

Patrick Masson (@massonpj) is currently serving as the General Manager for the Open Source Initiative after working within higher education IT for over twenty years, ranging in roles from Programmer Analyst at UCLA, to Chief Technology Officer in the University of Massachusetts' Office of the President.Patrick also teaches within the College of Computing and Information at the State University of New York at Albany on subjects related to open source software.Patrick has worked to promote the awareness and adoption of open source throughout his career, serving on the Jasig Foundation's Board of Directors, and is currently on the Apereo Foundation's Advisory Council. He is the co-founder and current chair of the EDUCAUSE Constituency Group on Openness and author of the Openness Index.

Open Minded Conversation Starter Award 2015 Author Contributor Club

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Openwashing: Tom Sawyer whitewashing a fence

Openwashing: adopter beware

It's great to see where open source software and the communities that support it are today. Many of those who have worked over the years to develop feature-rich applications…

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Open Source Computer Club: Out of the trash, into the classroom

Don,

Thanks for your enthusiasm. The students wipe the drives using DBAN (http://www.dban.org/), which also provides a nice lesson on how data is stored and retrieved. This also alleviates some of the burden on the IT department when decommissioning machines--a "win win" for the program and district.

If you'd like to learn more check out the OSI Working group details at: https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Main/Projects/FLOSS+Desktop+Refurbishme…

We (the OSI) are now expanding the the program to other schools / districts that are interested and have developed a curriculum and resources for teachers to help implement the program. Happy to share, feel free to contact me directly.