By Sharing with Open Source Projects, Professors Teach the Importance of Giving Back

(This is the fourth and final post in the "Voices of POSSE" series, a collection of interviews conducted at this year's Professors' Open Source Summer Experience, held in Raleigh, NC, July 23-24.)

At Bacone College in Muskogee, OK, students use open source tools every day. They manage coursework with Moodle. They browse a school website built with Joomla. And they write papers with OpenOffice.

On campus, open source may have no bigger advocate than Prof. Allen White, who visited Raleigh, NC, to attend the Professors' Open Source Summer Experience, a two-day immersive workshop for educators who champion open source tools and principles at colleges across the country. White said using open source software has convinced his students and colleagues of their immense value to contemporary education. But, he said, they're not recogizing a critical responsibility that comes with using open tools...