Our mission is to promote the use of Open Source technology by elementary, middle, and high schools across the Commonwealth, and to lend support to the individuals and teams who are pioneering this effort.
Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) is a unique approach to software development. The human-readable source code is in the public domain where it can be examined and improved upon by other programmers. This has resulted in products that are developed and updated in response to the actual needs of users, and that provide specific solutions to problems that have not yet caught the attention of the commercial software sector.
FOSS encourages users to ask lots of questions, to find their own answers, and to work with others to develop new solutions to problems. It is therefore an excellent match for school environments that encourages open inquiry and collaboration.
MOSSSIG is a Special Interest Group within a larger organization called MassCUE (Massachusetts Computer-Using Educators. Our blog is administered by a small team of volunteers including Michael Selva, Algot Runeman.
As of October 2009, MOSSSIG has a group email for interaction.
http://groups.google.com/group/mosssig2
Come join us there.
