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Re: [school-discuss] A new legal organization to support Open Source in education
Beautiful!
Congrats to all founders. Post? Will do.
Org? Will do that, too. ;-).
David
Quoting Teemu <teemu@ionstream.fi>:
>
> FREE TO PUBLISH
>
> 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
>
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