Hello Heiko,
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 10:48:32AM +0200, Heiko Degenhardt wrote:
(sorry, I don't know if webmaster@fsfeurope.org is the right place for that. I just emailed education@gnu.org, but without answer. If you know a better contact for us, please let me know).
The team@fsfeurope.org address reaches the core team directly. The two mailinglists discussion@fsfeurope.org and fsfe-de@fsfeurope.org also are good places to get in contact with all or the German speaking FSFE people.
At http://www.fsfeurope.org/education/education.html I read that the FSF Europe actively supports the use of Free Software in education. I alsothink that the use of Free Software and documentation at schools is one of the main tasks of the "community" in the near future.
I agree.
I would like to point you to the German PingoS project, which is offering free Linux support for schools and writing school software and documentation under the GPL. The homepage (currently only available in German language) is at http://www.pingos.schulnetz.org, but you can find a short description of the project in English language at http://www.pingos.schulnetz.org/description/.
We are very interested in getting in contact with other projects that are promoting free software at schools. We just got some contact with the Ofset project (http://www.ofset.org), with OpenWebSchool (http://www.openwebschool.org) and with Ganesha's project (http://www.ganeshas-project.org).
It would be very nice to here from you what you think of our project, and if you see some way that we can cooperate.
From what I know about PingoS, the project focusses on some of the practial advantages of GNU/Linux and Free Software. It is stressed several times that "Linux" comes without costs. Personally I feel that the project should gently also introduced to the mid-term and long-term advantages gained through Free Software.
Maybe we can meet and chat about how we can help each others. I think Georg Greve will be in Berlin for the WOS2 and the FSFE will have a small booth at the Systems in Munich from 15-19. Oktober. These might be good occasions.
Note that I am not necessarily lead the education efforts of the FSFE.
Best, Bernhard