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Software Freedom Day 2008

Posted September 19th @ 11:43 pm by Chris Gray

Today marks SFD 08, and over 600 teams will be spreading the open-source message (along with copies of OpenDisc and OpenEducationDisc) all over the world. They’ve set up a special website for the event to track the teams and blogs related to this years event - planet.softwarefreedomday.org, which includes a neat map of where the [...]

Moving servers…

Posted July 22nd @ 11:06 pm by Chris Gray

Due to the varied availability of our website of late we’ve switched hosting companies. We’re almost completely migrated over as you can see - the only remaining sections to migrate are the forums, mailing list and wiki, which will appear soon.
As always, the latest version can be downloaded using the Download pane to the right [...]

OpenDisc 08.07 Released!

Posted June 27th @ 1:25 pm by Chris Gray

We’re pleased to release 08.07, the latest version of OpenDisc, with no less than twenty five updates, including Firefox 3 and the latest milestone versions of OpenOffice.org, FileZilla, Seamonkey and many more.
We’d hoped that the next version of OpenDisc would have been running Kiwix but we’ve had teething problems, so 08.07 is still running the [...]

Firefox 3 and OpenDisc 08.07

Posted June 14th @ 9:25 pm by Chris Gray

Edit: Firefox 3 is out! If you want to upgrade before the new version of OpenDisc is released, jump over to GetFirefox.com to nab the latest version.
Original post:
If you haven’t already checked it out, SpreadFirefox are holding a Firefox 3 release Download Day and everybody is invited to pledge now to download upon release day. [...]

OpenEducationDisc 08.05 released

Posted May 14th @ 3:21 pm by Chris Gray

We are pleased to announce the latest release of the award winning OpenEducationDisc. This software builds on the OpenDisc and is aimed directly at schools and students aged 10-21+ giving the necessary tools to help them complete homework/coursework assignments. The software has been specially selected by school teachers to provide for the everyday software needs [...]

08.05 Beta Release

Posted April 24th @ 11:48 am by Peter Kemp

After several month of hectic development we are pleased to announce the Beta release of the 08.05 OpenEducationDisc. Plus the latest versions of all your favourite applications, the new disc offers a host of new programs and changes.
There is also a comprehensive guide on how to distribute your own versions of the OpenEducationDisc [...]

Testing the Kiwix Interface

Posted March 8th @ 1:40 pm by Chris Gray

We’ve almost finished the transition from the old customised K-Meleon back-end of the disc, to a nice simple Kiwix interface.
Before we roll it out we’d like people to test it on their machines, so if you have the time to give it a spin, download the .iso file (we’ve pared it down to around 20MB) [...]

OpenDisc 08.03 Progress

Posted February 9th @ 11:08 am by Chris Gray

While we were originally planning on a 08.02 (February) release, we’d like to have Open Disc running the new backend flawlessly (Kiwix, the same software powering the offline Wikipedia DVD), than release 08.02 in the interim with limited functionality. With all things going well the next version will be 08.03.
The rescheduling also allows us to [...]

OpenEducationDisc launched!

Posted October 14th @ 7:52 pm by Chris Gray

We’re pleased to announce the latest release of the award winning OpenEducation project, OpenEducationDisc 07.10, an official branch of OpenDisc. This is a modification of OpenDisc by Teachers and Computer Specialists with a passion for education. It provides students with quick, easy and powerful tools specially selected to solve their educational needs. Commercial software [...]

OpenEducation wins prestigious Teach First Award

Posted October 10th @ 5:24 am by Peter Kemp

In June 2007 the OpenEducationCD, on which the current version of the OpenEducationDisc is built, won the prestigious school projects award from the British educational charity, Teach First. Against tough competition from projects around the UK, the OpenEducationCD was judged to be making an impact in challenging Inner City schools by allowing students [...]

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