[school-discuss] A new legal organization to support Open Source in education

[Teemu <teemu@ionstream.fi>]

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We have formed a legal organization called "Libre and Open Source in 
Education", that supports, educates and promotes Open Source in education 
here in Finland.

The organization was established by the following people at the biggest 
finnish eLearning conference, ITK '02 on thursday April, 18:

Teemu Arina, Project Manager of MimerDesk project / Ionstream Ltd
Teemu Leinonen,  Project Manager of FLE3 project / ITCOLE / Media Lab, 
University of Art and Design Helsinki
Dr. Johan Silén, Geophysics Research, Finnish Meterological Institute     
Christian Lupander, in charge of the development of all network based 
services for K-12, Espoo Section of Education and Culture
Antti Ellonen, coordinator of Virtual University project, University of 
Jyväskylä, School of Business and Economics

Our objective is mainly to share the ideology of Open Source and the 
philosophy of freely available information in todays' information society. 
This applies not only in software but content as well. All information wants 
to be free. The results and products of the past generations should be freely 
available for all people today.

We believe that the change to better starts from the schools, where the 
information has been shared and processed for decades. We encourage all 
SchoolForge members and other people to form similar legal organizations to 
support SchoolForge movement in their own countries.

Best regards,

Teemu Arina
MimerDesk.org

teemu@ionstream.fi