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Sun Microsystems, Inc. a annoncé le 29 octobre dernier le lancement de deux réseaux sociaux dédiés au monde de l’éducation. L’article de The Finnancial nous apprend que le premier s’adresse plutôt aux écoles et le second aux étudiants intéressés par l’open source, les outils de programmation et les plateformes.

EduConnection.org

“Educonnection.org offers a platform for schools to exchange information and best practices that will help them to mitigate the challenges of purchasing and implementing new technology in an era of increasing budgetary pressure. It also provides an opportunity for Sun to directly energize, engage and support the education community.”

Open Source University Meetup (OSUM)

“Sun’s OSUM is an open social network created for students interested in learning, sharing and using open source developer tools and platforms. The portal harnesses the true power of open source by helping students collaborate and use open source developer tools like MySQL, NetBeans, Java, GlassFish, OpenSPARC, OpenSolaris and more. Students can also use OSUM to connect in person through on-campus meetups and events coordinated by the network of more than 500 Sun Campus Ambassadors. Within the first two months of the launch, there are already 10,000 members in the OSUM community.”