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Historic Milestone For Rights Of Readers As UN Negotiators Finalize Treaty For The Blind

Maira Sutton | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | June 27, 2013

Member states of the United Nations concluded the draft of an international treaty this week that gives people with visual and reading disabilities better access to copyrighted works. Read More »

Humanitarian Free And Open Source Software - The Benefits Of "Doing Good"

Event Details
Type: 
Seminar/Webinar
Date: 
December 1, 2016 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Location: 
Hugh Dempster Building
6245 Agronomy Rd, Room 110
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Canada

The University of British Columbia will hold a one-night event on Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) intended for an audience of Computer Science instructors and students. Heidi J.C. Ellis, a professor at Western New England University, will give a presentation entitled “Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software - The Benefits of ‘Doing Good’”. The abstract for her talk can be found on UBC’s website. Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) affords students ___ opportunities for learning and provides a number of ways for students to participate, as Ellis will show during her presentation...

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