Open Source, Red Hat and Security

“Other components are built around projects designed to accomplish specific goals or solve specific problems. As someone has an innovative idea, a project is started and people join the team to develop the software. There are then various distribution projects where these individual projects coalesce into the different distributions” (p. 2)

– Ring, Rick. “Open Source, Red Hat and Security.” CIO.com. Red Hat Inc., Web. 27 Nov 2009. <http://www.cio.com/documents/whitepapers/RedHatOpenSourceSecurity.pdf&gt;.

“Opening” My Masters

I have begun a masters program at The State University of New York, Empire State College. As my area of focus will be on “Openness” (although I have come to learn that many of those deeper into the program change, rather refine, their focus), I thought I would apply the same open practices that I am interested in exploring and understanding in my formal education, to my formal education. Therefore, I will be posting all of my activity within the program and each course here; everything from reading and class notes, to papers and the instructor’s responses.

My hope is to create a laboratory for practicing and assessing the ideas and issues with openness as well as harvest–what I believe at the start of this program–the benefits of openness. For example, I would be very interested to use this site, i.e. an open format, to learn from others regarding my readings, research, writing, etc., who are outside the traditional context of a course, my program, the college and even the academy.

I am not at all sure what this will provide me, but it just seems too interesting not to do.