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Posts from SIGCSE: bring on Alice 3

March 15, 2008

Wanda Dann, Dennis Cosgrove and co are hosting several hundred academics at the Alice tea-party today. We’ve used Alice for several years now in our introductory programming courses. Dale and Patricia have carefully measured learning outcomes (pdf). They, along with others, have found that students can get distracted by the building of characters (joining legs […]

Posts from SIGCSE: Humanitarian FOSS project

March 14, 2008

Ralph Morelli from Trinity College is leading a workshop at SIGCSE called “Teaching and Building Humanitarian Open Source Software” (with others including Heidi Elias and Janardham Iyengar). This is an exciting move towards computing for sustainability. Humanitarian-FOSS is software that benefits humanity in some way. They use the word humanitarian in the broadest sense, so […]

Green criteria in purchasing – an example

February 29, 2008

Here is another example of a tender document we responded to last week. This one from a quasi-governmental organisation in NZ (there’s lots of good example statements coming from the Govt3 programme). xxx is committed to sustainable development, and will seek to procure sustainable products, works and services wherever possible. Ref Description Requirement Response […]

NZCS talking professionalism

February 28, 2008

The NZ Computer Society had its Otago AGM this week. Don Robertson, the new chair of the NZCS spoke about the Society’s plans to focus on professional registration. This is great news for sustainability. Don talked about the challenges facing the NZCS and its members. Foremost of those is professionalism. With the proliferation of computing […]

Software ecosystem, greenwash or new understanding?

February 17, 2008

Last week Computerworld reported IDC’s annual top ten predictions for the NZ computing industry. Number one is the impact of the skills crisis in NZ computing slowing investment. Number five is: Green IT – issues behind the hype will shine through What interests me most is their repeated use of the term “ecosystem”: 3. Emergence […]