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Free Software in Education - Next Steps -- Georg Greve
Hi everyone,
as announced a few weeks ago, the Free Software Foundation Europe will help coordinate and strengthen intiatives to propagate Free Software in and around the educational sector in Europe.
The roadmap to this as we see it right now would be to first gather as many initiatives active in this field and then get a round table (or even a conference) organized where all the activists can meet and talk to each other.
This meeting can be used to share experiences in the field and to plan concrete strategies to propagate Free Software in the educational sector.
In order to make the first step, a mailing list
has been created that you can subscribe to using the web form at
http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/edu
or by sending e-mail to edu-request@fsfeurope.org with "subscribe" (without quotes) as the subject.
This list will be administrated by Hilaire Fernandes of Ofset, an associate organization of the FSF Europe.
We hope that many people will join in order to make a real difference for Free Software in education.
Regards,
Georg Greve FSF Europe, President
And "Georg C. F. Greve" greve@gnu.org gave word to the following thoughts:
The roadmap to this as we see it right now would be to first gather as many initiatives active in this field and then get a round table (or even a conference) organized where all the activists can meet and talk to each other.
This meeting can be used to share experiences in the field and to plan concrete strategies to propagate Free Software in the educational sector.
In order to make the first step, a mailing list
has been created that you can subscribe to using the web form at
IMHO, this is a very important step by now, and it wasn't taken any minute too soon. Already subscribed, hope this list will be very vital since I think that, having more influence in educational field is one of the most *major* goals the free software movement should aim for. Hope for a very productive work on this. :
Regards, Kris
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On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 04:02:57PM +0200, Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
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I have forwarded the article personally to a couple of organisations and people within than I know in Germany:
FSuB e.v.: (Translated: Free Software in Schools and Education.)
http://fsub.schule.de/fsub/fsub-index.htm
Grass-Verein e.V. www.grass-verein.de
GRASS Anwender-Vereinigung e.V. is a tax-exempt charity to support GRASS users and Free GIS in general.
Bionet e.V. http://www.bionet.schule.de/
BioNet is an official German 'Verein' (non profit association according to German law).
Since its foundation BioNet supports scientific and environmental school projects. At first on a national base, but later on also on a European scale.
We should also think about if FFII and FSuB want or can become associate organisations of the FSFE in Germany.
Bernhard
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:02:11AM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 04:02:57PM +0200, Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
[Please repost and forward this article widely, wherever it is appropriate.]
I have forwarded the article personally to a couple of organisations and people within than I know in Germany:
And to some more:
FFII e.V. www.ffii.org
A "public-interest association" under German law, designed to promote free competition in the software field and to fund public-interest informational goods.
LIVE e.V. Company association around Linux. http://www.linux-verband.de/