For the past 6 months or so, I've been working with a small team of people to put together Open Edge 2009, a one day forum to explore open education issues for Australian schools.  We've got a phenomenal list of contributors involved and I'm really looking forward to it.

Edit: This event has been rescheduled to June 10!!

 Tomorrow morning I'm doing a talk at the K12 Open Minds Conference in Indianapolis.

Grab a copy of the slides: OpenRoad.pdf, view the video - and follow these links to some of the references.

Am just refreshing my references and arguments for open source for education and small business. Stumbled across this paper entitled " Open Access, Open Archives And Open Source in Higher Education"  delivered at the State Library Of New South Wales, in Sydney in 2005 as part of the National Scholarly Communications Forum by Professor John M. Unsworth, of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, USA.