Common Connections

Creating the Classroom

Common Connections

Traditional educational approaches aren’t enough to shape the makers and thinkers of tomorrow. For Charlie Reisinger and Melanie Shimano’s students, open source shows the real-world potential of classroom ideas. See why in this conversation.

Melanie Shimano

Melanie Shimano

Founder
Food Computer Program

Melanie is an engineer, data scientist, and open source enthusiast who has helped bring food and agriculture to life for students in Baltimore. Cultivating Change shows how her Food Computer Program empowered high school students at Green Street Academy to use open source tools to grow their own vegetables.

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Charlie Reisinger

Charlie Reisinger

Director of Technology
Penn Manor School District

Charlie is a champion of open source in education. He launched Pennsylvania’s largest classroom desktop Linux® program and has written extensively about how schools can use open source to empower students. In Penn Manor: The Power of Open in Education, we spotlighted the student-powered IT help desk Charlie created at his school.

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e-NABLE

Una comunidad internacional de voluntarios que diseña, fabrica y distribuye prótesis open source impresas en 3-D de forma gratuita.

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Starting Small

Conozca a los creadores, los académicos y los artesanos de Chile que utilizan los datos abiertos en la vida cotidiana.

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Collective Discovery

¿Cómo usan el hardware abierto las personas aficionadas a la TI para lograr descubrimientos vanguardistas?

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¿Cuál es la próxima historia?

La serie original de Red Hat, Open Source Stories, celebra las acciones de las personas innovadoras que aprovechan el potencial del open source en todas las actividades humanas.

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Estamos comprometidos con el estilo open source

Conozca más acerca del open source. Comprenda nuestro modelo de desarrollo de la comunidad a la empresa. Descubra The Open Organization.

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