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

Uma comunidade global de voluntários projeta, fabrica e distribui gratuitamente próteses criadas com tecnologia open source e impressas em 3D.

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Starting Small

Conheça os produtores, estudiosos e artesãos que incorporam dados open source à vida cotidiana no Chile.

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Collective discovery

Como cidadãos cientistas usam o hardware open source para realizar descobertas revolucionárias?

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Qual será a próxima história?

Open Source Stories, uma série original da Red Hat, reconhece pessoas inovadoras que usam o poder do open source para melhorar a vida de todos.

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Temos um compromisso com o open source

Saiba tudo sobre a tecnologia open source. Conheça nosso modelo de desenvolvimento “da comunidade para a empresa". Descubra mais no livro The Open Organization.

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