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[school-discuss] Software Freedom Day
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- Subject: [school-discuss] Software Freedom Day
- From: "Peter Ruwoldt" <ruwoldtp@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 08:15:18 +0930
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Hi
I am on the SFI board
that organises "Software
Freedom Day", a global event that supports local communities to
celebrate and educate how Free Open Source Software can benefit
people in their area. This year it is on September 20th.
FOSS fits well with the ideal 'Free and
Open Education' by being able to give the learning tools to students
so that they can use, share and build upon them. Collaboration and
sharing fits well with this ideal and FOSS.
One of our objectives for 2008 is to
better support schools to host Software Freedom Day events. For
schools already making use of FOSS, it is a great way to help their
community understand what and why they are doing this and to involve
their FOSS communities in the process.
I would like to start some
conversations about this so that we can better understand how to help
schools participate and to share stories, resources and experience.
If you want, you could put these ideas straight onto the SFD
wiki
http://softwarefreedomday.org/Resources_to_support_schools
Cheers
Peter
--
Free and Open education for all
Peter Ruwoldt
Grant High School
Hosking Avenue
MOUNT GAMBIER SA 5290
P. 08 87263128
F. 08 87250173
ruwoldtp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://ruwoldtp.googlepages.com/