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FLOSS for Education - Tools etc.

Including distros, SMSs, LMS, LORs, media editors, policy resources, etc.

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FLOSS in Schools

• Why schools should exclusively use free software
• Reasons for schools to use Free Software
• Why should open source software be used in schools?

Governments and FLOSS policy. Examples ....

South Africa

• FLOSS and Open Standards - critical for bridging the digital divide.
• Declaration on Open Source - rtf.
• South African government policy document (approved by Cabinet, Feb 2007)

UK

• Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan
• Open Source Schools

UNDP

• FOSS and Education
• UNDP FOSS Primers

Ethically/Philosophically

Free Software Foundation:

• Why Software Libre in Schools?
• Software libre in education
• Why should open source software be used in schools?

Creative Commons

• Creative Commons

Libre Knowledge

• Say Libre
• Libre Communities and
• Libre Knowledge