Open Source: A Do-It-Yourself Movement to Change Education from the Bottom Up

DrupalCon, an annual developer’s conference highlighting the open source content management system (CMS),Drupal. For those of you not familiar with the term "open source," it generally refers to a collaborative movement in which developers work together to create usable code that is made available to the public at no cost.

No cost? Yep – that's right. People work together to solve a problem and then share their resources to the community so others can use it. The resources also continue to evolve as a direct result of the community cooperation. Interesting concept, eh?

On day two of DrupalCon, I listened to Tim O'Reilly, a web 2.0 guru, as he stated that not only has open source continued to drive our society's capacity to act together and collaborate effectively, it has also sprouted the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) movement.