Hi everyone, I'm beginning work on project for one of my classes at the U. and I hope to publish the results in one of the educational technology journals. My goal is to write a piece advocating for open standards, protocols, and open source as a hedge against schools being trapped by their reliance on the non-open versions. Case in point: my district is looking at spending $50-75k over the next year or so up upgrade all the MS Office licenses we have. My initial searches of the educational literature indicate that very little has been written on this topic. My article is going to be directed toward non-Geek educational leaders who are concerned about the costs, security, etc. of their current technology systems. Does anyone have an interesting article, book, etc. that you think would be relevant here? There are some classics obviously (e.g., Cathedral and the Bazaar), but I'm looking for other less well known ones. I promise to remember all of you when I'm a big shot professor doling out wisdom from my ivory tower. :-) -Tim -- Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.org | http://www.zope.com W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com