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It looks as if our open letter to President Obama
isn't alone. A recent post on Ars Technica kindly points us to another open letter from a group of open source vendors and advocates calling for the new administration to consider open source software in government IT initiatives and infrastructure.

Of course, we've been thinking about open source software's power and potential in education for quite a while. Our recently described vision for educational technology depends vitally upon open source materials and the value of community input. That's why we release our software as open source and invite you to visit our source code library to download any or all of it, examine it for yourself and – we hope – submit your own ideas, suggestions or improvements.

Welcome back.

As we at the Concord Consortium begin to make more regular posts to our blog, I'm not exactly certain whom I'm welcoming back more: you as our readers, or ourselves as bloggers. Either way, we're pleased to have you as part of the conversation.

And we have plenty to talk about, as our most recent version of @Concord shows. Whether we're giving advice to President Obama, imagining a world beyond textbooks, or giving you free online lessons to use next Monday, we're interested in asking good questions about what technology can do for education. And as a new face around our halls, I'm personally thrilled to be a part of it all.

But, frankly, a conversation gets pretty boring with only one side, so we're interested in hearing your thoughts as well. We hope you'll bring your perspectives to our posts, tell us about software you love or want improved, and share your vision of how technology can help students learn better.

So welcome back. And stop back often, to help us turn good thoughts into a great dialogue.