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Re: [SFD-discuss] FLOSS educational programmes

by Larry Cafiero

I'm not sure I'm following this thread correctly -- and if I'm not, forgive me -- but for course management, there's a FOSS program out of New Zealand called Moodle. You can find it at http://moodle.org if need be. I agree with an earlier post that schools should teach more than one "brand" of program in a course, i.e., more than just Word for word processing, etc. Larry Cafiero HeliOS Solutions West Felton, California, USA "Bringing FOSS to the Redwoods" On 10/13/07, Janet Hawtin <lucychili(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/13/07, xolani Ndlovu <xolanimart(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Xolani > > That sounds great > > There is this site > http://theingots.org/ > Which has a method around which people are making courses. > > And this EU site which is collecting training material > http://selfproject.eu/ > > There is plenty of room for people to make good coursework and > educational resources for open source software so any work in this > area would be wonderful to see. =) > > Janet > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

Oct. 13, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] FLOSS educational programmes

by Bruce Kingsbury

On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 01:55 -0700, xolani Ndlovu wrote: > > > On 13/10/2007, xolani Ndlovu <xolanimart(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > hie eveyone > > are there any educational programmes that teach computing > short courses using FLOSS products INGOTS? http://www.theingots.org/

Oct. 13, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] FLOSS educational programmes

by draicone＠gmail.com

On 10/13/07, xolani Ndlovu <xolanimart(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > hie eveyone > > > > are there any educational programmes that teach computing short courses > > using FLOSS products ,programmes like ICDL and others?if not, > > OpenSourceBulawayo and others are going to be working on a parallel or > > alternative educational programme to ICDL that will teach short computer > > courses using FLOSS products only since ICDL and other short cources in > > ZIMBABWE are only taught using Microsoft products only.As we > > were discussing on how we can get companies and institutions to use Floss > > we realized that companies send their employees to do ICDL so that they can > > use computers at their work places. > > so with programmes like these compinies can switch and get their people > > to do the programmes.if there are such programmes please let me now so > > that we save time work on getting them done in zimbabwe too.One of the > > pioneers (KUDAKWASHE ) of FLOSS in Zimbabwe has set a framework on the > > programme equivalent to ICDL it goes like this: In the meantime, I > > hereby volunteer to host the wiki on FLOSS-based > > ICDL > > course material here: > > > > > > http://www.rukanda.com/wiki/index.php?title=International_Computer_Driving_… > > > <snip> > > > This is all very well, but in the spirit of FOSS, should the use of any particular software package, FOSS or non-FOSS, be even considered? The nature of FOSS pretty much asks for forks, derivatives and alternatives, and any such courses should teach students how to use software packages for a particular purpose, not how to use a particular package. Is this education or training? Especially with the volatile nature of specific FOSS projects (what ever happened to Nvu?), restricting learning to a particular application may leave people with redundant expertise. SFDers should think about encouraging educational institutions to teach generic skills using FOSS, e.g. word processing taught on OO.org, instead of specifically Microsoft Word.

Oct. 13, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] FLOSS educational programmes

by Janet Hawtin

On 10/13/07, xolani Ndlovu <xolanimart(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi Xolani That sounds great There is this site http://theingots.org/ Which has a method around which people are making courses. And this EU site which is collecting training material http://selfproject.eu/ There is plenty of room for people to make good coursework and educational resources for open source software so any work in this area would be wonderful to see. =) Janet

Oct. 13, 2007

FLOSS educational programmes

by xolani Ndlovu

On 13/10/2007, xolani Ndlovu <xolanimart(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > hie eveyone > > are there any educational programmes that teach computing short courses > using FLOSS products ,programmes like ICDL and others?if not, > OpenSourceBulawayo and others are going to be working on a parallel or > alternative educational programme to ICDL that will teach short computer > courses using FLOSS products only since ICDL and other short cources in > ZIMBABWE are only taught using Microsoft products only.As we > were discussing on how we can get companies and institutions to use Floss > we realized that companies send their employees to do ICDL so that they can > use computers at their work places. > so with programmes like these compinies can switch and get their people > to do the programmes.if there are such programmes please let me now so > that we save time work on getting them done in zimbabwe too.One of the > pioneers (KUDAKWASHE ) of FLOSS in Zimbabwe has set a framework on the > programme equivalent to ICDL it goes like this:In the meantime, I hereby > volunteer to host the wiki on FLOSS-based > ICDL > course material here: > > * > > http://www.rukanda.com/wiki/index.php?title=International_Computer_Driving_… > > Everybody, feel free to add content to this wiki. The only conditions > are that: > > 1. All ICDL practical lessons or HOWTOs on this wiki must use FLOSS; > 2. Every ICDL lesson that you add to this wiki must be linked to the > appropriate ICDL module, category, skill set element and task > item. These must be quoted at the begining of the lesson or > HOWTO; > 3. Use of screen capture graphics is encouraged as a way to make it > easier for the learner to follow the practical lessons. However, > care must be taken to make sure that the graphics are not too > large or don't have too high a resolution to make it impossible > for people in Zimbabwe to be able to access them due to low > bandwidth. > 4. Before using the wiki, learn wikiwiki annotation first. > > The ICDL syllabus is attached to this message and will be available via > > a link on the wiki. > -- member of OpenSourceBulawayo free software as in freedom

Oct. 13, 2007

FLOSS educational programmes

by xolani Ndlovu

hie eveyone are there any educational programmes that teach computing short courses using FLOSS products ,programmes like ICDL and others?if not, OpenSourceBulawayo and others are going to be working on a parallel or alternative educational programme to ICDL that will teach short computer courses using FLOSS products only since ICDL and other short cources in ZIMBABWE are only taught using Microsoft products only.As we were discussing on how we can get companies and institutions to use Floss we realized that companies send their employees to do ICDL so that they can use computers at their work places. so with programmes like these compinies can switch and get their people to do the programmes.

Oct. 13, 2007

Competition entries

by Pia Waugh

Hi all, Many thanks to all the wonderful people who put entries into the SFD 2007 competition. We shall get back to all of you in the coming fortnight as we work our way through the entries. Again, thank you all for a fantastic Software Freedom Day 2007, and if you haven't already, please fill out our report form so we can count numbers and such for this year: http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/event_report.html Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Oct. 8, 2007

SFD 2007 in Trinidad

by Dev Teelucksingh

The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS ; http://ttcsweb.org/) held a Software Freedom Day event on September 15th, 2007 in Trinidad. An 18 minute video of our Software Freedom Day 2007 event is available for download in OGG, and XviD formats : * ttcs_sfd2007.ogg (75MB) http://files.filefront.com/ttcs+sfd2007ogg/;8667215;/fileinfo.html * ttcs_sfd2007.avi (40MB) http://files.filefront.com/ttcs+sfd2007avi/;8666821;/fileinfo.html Flickr set of photos : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ttcs/sets/72157602189102284/ Dev T TTCS ; http://ttcsweb.org/

Oct. 4, 2007

Re: [SFD-discuss] CDs/other stuff coming from different places?

by AHigueros

Hello Pia I want to know if send the t-shirts for Guatemala becouse we only recive the ubuntus cds thanks bye On 8/25/07, Pia Waugh <greebo(a)pipka.org> wrote: > > Hi Douglas, > > <quote who="Douglas A. Whitfield"> > > > I know there was discussion about ubuntu/OpenCDs a while back. We got > > our shirts and stickers today, but no CDs. I'm assuming those are > > coming from Canonical (Montreal, perhaps?). Anyway, just want to make > > sure our CDs are coming! > > The CDs will be coming seperately, as will be the stickers and balloons. > > I'll be sending out an update email for all teams in the next hour or two > with all information about where everything is up to! > > Cheers, > Pia > > -- > Linux Australia > http://linux.org.au/ > > "We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be > free." - Bill Hicks > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

Oct. 1, 2007