{"id":39,"date":"2006-01-23T13:40:30","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T17:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/driscolldev\/2006\/01\/23\/open-code-supports-local-economie"},"modified":"2006-01-23T13:40:30","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T17:40:30","slug":"open-code-supports-local-economies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/2006\/01\/23\/open-code-supports-local-economies\/","title":{"rendered":"Open code supports local economies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a43'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewing my notes from the Maddog talk, I realize that I omitted a critical revelation in my last post.  In an argument for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FOSS\">f\/oss<\/a> novel to my ears, Maddog explained the benefit that open code can have on local tech economy.  If a company deploys an open-source product, they can then hire developers in their area to maintain, support, and extend that software.  This localization is meaningful regardless of whether an organization is located in Georgia the state or Georgia the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, charter schools came under fire at the State House and one of the charges was that we have not fulfilled our commitment to sharing successful techniques with the larger public school community.  There are many reasons that this communication has not occurred; some political, others circumstantial.  Developing and supporting open code might be a powerful move towards rectifying this situation.  Software available freely online could help teachers, staff, and administrators at a variety of institutions start to communicate without the morass of scheduled meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewing my notes from the Maddog talk, I realize that I omitted a critical revelation in my last post. In an argument for f\/oss novel to my ears, Maddog explained the benefit that open code can have on local tech economy. If a company deploys an open-source product, they can then hire developers in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-notes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/driscoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}