Re: [seul-edu] Fw: Information about government support for open source & education

[jero <jero@ran.es>]

Readin this mail it cames to mind quickly a report from PITAC
(President IT Advisory Committee) about the benefits of Open Source 
based development. (2000-11-11)
I have no direct acces to the pdf copy, and the link seems to be out of
work:

	http://www.hppc.gov/ac/pres-oss-11sep00.pdf

Tomorrow yi'll try to find this report at work.

This is the first time i post to de list (altought i've been reading it
for some time)
so please excuse possible OT, sintax errors, etc :)


Jeronimo Martinez.

Sistemas de Informacion - Grupo Sorolla
Valencia - Espaņa.


Douglas Loss wrote:
> 
> I just received this from Bjarni.  Let's help him here!
> Alejandro, could you answer the question about Red Escolar?
> Tomas or Georges (or anyone else who knows), could you deal with
> the French question?  Does anyone have any info on the German
> legislation?  Gunnar, perhaps you could collaborate with Bjarni
> to the benefit of both of you.  I'm sure other information of
> the same sort would be happily received.  Oh, and Bjarni, you
> ought to subscribe to the seul-edu mailing list!
> 
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:
> 
> > From: "Bjarni R. Einarsson" <bre@klaki.net>
> > To: seul-edu@seul.org
> > Subject: Information about government support for open source
> > & education
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've been searching the web for links to more concrete
> > information on
> > some of the bigger open-source related educational projects
> > and
> > government policies.  I'm not having much luck.
> >
> > The reason I'm looking, is that I'll be giving a short talk
> > about
> > open source and education at a Linux convention here in
> > Iceland next
> > Thursday. The Icelandic minister of education may be among the
> > guests. :)
> >
> > I'll be presenting more or less the standard arguement for
> > open
> > source in small countries (cheap, local work vs. foreign
> > licensing
> > fees, independance w.r.t. localization etc.), with emphasis on
> > education since that is one of the best place to start
> > building up
> > knowledge and independance like this.  I hope to be able to
> > provide
> > references to things that have been done abroad to prove that
> > someone
> > "important" actually agrees with me.
> >
> > The things I'm aware of, but sorely lack information about
> > are:
> >
> >   - Mexico's ScholarNet project.  Is this still alive?  If so,
> > has it
> >     been doing well?
> >
> >   - France's agreement with the French LUG.
> >
> >   - Someone mentioend a pro-Linux German legislation (proposed
> > or
> >     otherwise - I'm completely in the dark on this one).
> >
> > Any links would be most appreciated, and please don't be
> > afraid to
> > tell me about stuff I haven't mentioend here. :) English is
> > preferred, but I can get help translating German or French if
> > necessary.
> >
> > Also, I hope I'm not rude to request that any responses be
> > sent to me
> > directly - I'm not subscribed to this list and reloading the
> > archives
> > isn't very efficient.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > --
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> > B7A3AB89
> >  bre@klaki.net                -><-
> > http://bre.klaki.net/
> >
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> >
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