Free Culture at Virginia Tech http://vt.freeculture.org Just another Students for Free Culture weblog Sat, 08 May 2010 05:32:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 FreedomPack 2010.0 Released http://vt.freeculture.org/2010/05/08/freedompack-20100-released/ http://vt.freeculture.org/2010/05/08/freedompack-20100-released/#comments Sat, 08 May 2010 05:32:59 +0000 matt http://vt.freeculture.org/2010/05/08/freedompack-20100-released/ The FreedomPack, a project of our chapter that provides a disc of free software for Windows and Mac OS X users, has been released to BitTorrent today. The software includes:

  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • OpenOffice.org
  • Pidgin (Windows) or Adium (Mac OS X)
  • Sumatra PDF (Windows) or Skim (Mac OS X)
  • Audacity
  • Celestia
  • Code::Blocks
  • Neverball
  • The Battle for Wesnoth
  • Crack Attack!

We have uploaded to both Mininova, where we have a content distribution account, and The Pirate Bay. Download, seed, and enjoy.

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Bring Ethernet cable and a decent PC. Most machines from the last year or so will be fine, so long as the graphics are discrete (ATI or NVIDIA, not Intel). We will provide copies of all games for all of the major operating systems at the event.

  • Date: Sunday, April 25th
  • Time: 2:00pm-9:00 pm
  • Place: 102 Johnston Student Center
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2/08: Monday, 8:00 PM, North Lounge Johnston Student Center
2/15: Monday, 8:00 PM, 104 Johnston Student Center
2/22: Monday, 8:00 PM, 145 Squires Student Center
3/1 through 5/3, excluding Spring Break: Every Tuesday at 8:00 PM in 104 Johnston Student Center

Sorry for the inconvenience this causes. Next semester’s schedule will hopefully be more consistent.

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  • Date: Friday, August 28th
  • Time: 2:00pm-7:00 pm
  • Place: Outside Squires Student Center
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  1. Mibbit is proprietary, while qwebirc is licensed under the GNU GPLv2.
  2. Mibbit was not working (it never worked for me anyway).

Like Mibbit, you will need a Web browser that supports JavaScript to use qwebirc.  NoScript users should whitelist freenode.net to use the applet.

]]> http://vt.freeculture.org/2009/08/19/new-irc-applet/feed/ 1 Blackboard will be phased out by Fall 2010. http://vt.freeculture.org/2009/07/29/blackboard-will-be-phased-out-by-fall-2010/ http://vt.freeculture.org/2009/07/29/blackboard-will-be-phased-out-by-fall-2010/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:24:49 +0000 matt http://vt.freeculture.org/2009/07/29/blackboard-will-be-phased-out-by-fall-2010/ Virginia Tech has made it official: Scholar will be replacing Blackboard completely by Fall of 2010.

Scholar will become Virginia Tech’s online system for learning and collaboration, after three years of development and evaluation, with full implementation by Fall 2010, announced Provost Mark McNamee and Vice President for Information Technology Erv Blythe. Learning Technologies will discontinue Blackboard service at that time.

Scholar is the Virginia Tech label for the community source software Sakai. Sakai is a platform for innovation jointly developed through collaboration among several universities including Virginia Tech, along with Michigan, Indiana, Virginia, Cambridge, Stanford, the University of California-Berkeley, Rutgers, Yale, Georgia Tech, University of Cape Town, and others. By keeping development within the academic community, control of ongoing development and improvements remains within and serves the academic community.

Faculty may start using Scholar at any time.

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Here are the interviews so far:

Dead Western
Justin Duerr of Northern Liberties
Matt Garfield (no relation to this poster) of Mose Giganticus
Chris Johnson of Ghost Mice

More should surface over the summer.

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]]> http://vt.freeculture.org/2009/03/03/hello-world/feed/ 1 Girl Talk is coming to Virginia Tech http://vt.freeculture.org/2009/02/07/girl-talk-is-coming-to-virginia-tech/ http://vt.freeculture.org/2009/02/07/girl-talk-is-coming-to-virginia-tech/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:25:21 +0000 matt http://vt.freeculture.org/2009/02/07/girl-talk-is-coming-to-virginia-tech/ Remix artist Girl Talk is coming to Virginia Tech, sponsored by the Virginia Tech Union.

  • Date: Thursday, February 26th
  • Time: 7:30pm
  • Place Squires Commonwealth
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