Re: [school-discuss] Open-Source advocacy

[Tom Adelstein <adelste@netscape.net>]

dhcjournalism@optonline.net wrote:

> To what extend has an open source advocacy group been formed in the 
> United States, or elsewhere, to help centralize knowledge resources, 
> publish targeted materials (and whatever else it is that advocacy 
> groups do all day) to local, state, and government institutions? 
> (read: schools, bureaucracy, etc)
>
> --David H. Crusoe
> Kids' Internet Radio Project
A significant Open Source advocacy group exists at the University of 
Southern Mississippi.  The group comes under the auspicies of the Open 
Source Software Institute (http://oss-institute.org).

OSSI sponsors numerous initiatives as you can see on their web site.

An article about them and other advocates in can be found at : 
http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7131

You will see more on their web sites: http://ogip.org  
http://governmentforge.org    http://ossi-news.org

Also USM, I understand, has planned a Competency Center for Open Source 
and you'll see even more out of that. I'm hoping that they will offer 
some higher institution credits for Linux courses on-line.