FLOSS4Edu Tools etc./Policy

FLOSS for Education - Tools etc.

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FLOSS in Schools in Principle

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

Governments and FLOSS Policy

Examples:

• Ecuador: Software Libre
• South Africa:
  • FLOSS and Open Standards: see relevant NACI documents relating to FLOSS, open source and open standards.
    • Free/Libre & Open Source Software and Open Standards in South Africa - A Critical Issue for Addressing the Digital Divide, National Advisory Council on Innovation Open Software Working Group, July 2004. Version 2.6.9
  • Declaration on Open Source: - rtf.
  • Go Open Source Task Team Conference
  • See relevant documents on SITA's site.
• Peru: "Peru answers MS FUD" - raises good discussion points.
• UK: Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan (.pdf).
• UNDP-APDIP Books (also UNDP FOSS Primers)
  • FOSS and Education.
• ...

UK

• Open Source Schools

Creative Commons

• Creative Commons

Libre knowledge

• Declaration on libre knowledge
• Say Libre
• Libre Communities and
• Libre knowledge