Rekrapenator/Idea Seeding/Creative Commons School Art

=Creative Commons Advert=

Goal:

 * To raise awareness of Creative Commons, FOSS, FLOSS and GNU/Linux at a local and national level

Rationale:

 * Warrington School has endeavoured to use and educate its students in the above for 6 years
 * They run 33 recycled computers on a mixture of Ubuntu, Mint, Xubuntu, Sugar, Kubuntu and Debian
 * The school is supported by a large group of volunteers
 * From the Board of Trustees to Dunlug
 * Warrington has sought changes to the Ministry of Education Microsoft Agreement
 * 1) That would see MOE funding and supporting of FOSS in NZ schools the same way they do with proprietary software
 * 2) By using the GNU/Linux operating system Warrington save the Government $64 per computer per year on licence fees
 * 3) $2112 per year X 6 years = $12672
 * The Ministry of Education has made it clear that they will not Warrington for the saved licence fees
 * They are also no plans that we have heard of to support Open Source in NZ schools in the near future

Creative Commons School Art:
and expose their students to the arts
 * Warrington School's goals for the year are to finish their playground development
 * Warrington School has a wonderful new rebound wall
 * They find themselves urgently needing to fund the resurfacing of the play court that has suffered from water seepage
 * Urgently needing funding they are proposing to erect sponsored Creative Commons images
 * These images will be erected on panels attached to the rebound wall or
 * Painted on the new asphalt that comes into the school
 * Images will be Creative Commons images that support CC, FOSS, FLOSS, GNU/Linux

By Paying for arts you are supporting a school that:

 * Buys local, then NZ made and Fair Trade
 * Runs NZ's only Creative Commons by default radio station
 * Shares its knowledge of FLOSS to the wider community
 * Gives away spare GNU/Linux computers to communities near and far
 * Sponsors a child in Timor Leste
 * Has a stream resknowledetoration project
 * And

Warrington School is offering

 * FOSS advertising by linking a CC image on a school building or wall
 * To a picture on the school wiki

To provide a balance in advertising
 * We would like to paint a Creative Commons Advert on the Warrington School rebound wall
 * With one of the many