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Re: [SFD-discuss] Presenting the XO laptop

by Judy Okite

CONGRATULATIONS!! Nicaragua Team! Kind Regards, On 1/15/08, Leandro Gomez <leo.telsen(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > As one of the winners of this year contest, the SFD Nicaragua Team got a brand new XO laptop [1] (thank you guys!!!). The local Ubuntu community held a Barcamp for the occasion on December 29 where the community had an opportunity to test drive this amazing tool. You can find some photos in [2]. > > This month, on January 30 we'll be organizing the official presentation of the XO laptop in Nicaragua [3] with the Minister of Education and other top level governmental officers as special guests. I'll keep you updated on this. > > Cheers, > > [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/ > [2] http://picasaweb.google.com/linuxtour/BarcampUbuntu2007 > [3] http://www.linuxtour.org/index.php5?title=Pr%C3%B3ximos_Eventos > >______________________________ _________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists /listinfo/sfd-discuss > >

Jan. 15, 2008

Presenting the XO laptop

by Leandro Gomez

Hi all, As one of the winners of this year contest, the SFD Nicaragua Team got a brand new XO laptop [1] (thank you guys!!!). The local Ubuntu community held a Barcamp for the occasion on December 29 where the community had an opportunity to test drive this amazing tool. You can find some photos in [2]. This month, on January 30 we'll be organizing the official presentation of the XO laptop in Nicaragua [3] with the Minister of Education and other top level governmental officers as special guests. I'll keep you updated on this. Cheers, [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/ [2] http://picasaweb.google.com/linuxtour/BarcampUbuntu2007 [3] http://www.linuxtour.org/index.php5?title=Pr%C3%B3ximos_Eventos

Jan. 15, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Was: FLOSS educational programmes

by Judy Okite

This is so cool, Pia! I would say AfNOG. They do fundamental and administration training of FreeBsd,across africa. Thnx -- Judy Ann Okite, +254-721237507,+254-734252336 P.O. BOX 2228 00100, NAIROBI,KENYA. "May I be granted.... .....the serenity to accept the pages, I Should not edit..... ...the courage to edit the pages that ,I should..... and the wisdom to know the difference." The Wiki prayer On 1/15/08, Pia Waugh <pia(a)softwarefreedomday.org> wrote: > Hi Judy, > > <quote who="Judy Okite"> > >> Hi all,This is a great idea and I would love to see it take shape!What > > is at stake is to agree on courseware &examining body.Thx > >It doesn't need to be any _one_ courseware examining body. I think if we > encouraged training and certs in general and perhaps create a list of > appropriate ones and leave it up to the very capable individual teams to > decide what is best for them. A short list of the top of my head: > > General computer use training: > - INGOTS > > Technical training: > - LPI (Linux Professional Institute - vendor neutral) > - RHCE (Red Hat) > - NCLE (Suse training) > > What else? > > Cheers, > Pia > >-- > Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/ > >______________________________ _________________ > >SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists /listinfo/sfd-discuss > >

Jan. 15, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Was: FLOSS educational programmes

by Matthew Macdonald-Wallace

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 08:09 +1100, Pia Waugh wrote: > Hi Judy, > > <quote who="Judy Okite"> > > > Hi all,This is a great idea and I would love to see it take shape!What > > is at stake is to agree on courseware &examining body.Thx > > It doesn't need to be any _one_ courseware examining body. I think if we > encouraged training and certs in general and perhaps create a list of > appropriate ones and leave it up to the very capable individual teams to > decide what is best for them. A short list of the top of my head: > > General computer use training: > - INGOTS > > Technical training: > - LPI (Linux Professional Institute - vendor neutral) > - RHCE (Red Hat) > - NCLE (Suse training) > > What else? Here in the UK, the ingots are being actively used by some members of the Open-Source Consortium (http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/) and we have spoken about possibly developing an "access" course (think of it as LPI 0.5) to help people get into open-source. I am a keen believer in teaching a skills set, not an application, and it is with this in mind that we are gearing ourselves to team up with organisations around the world that share our beliefs about FLOSS to further the adoption of FLOSS in schools. I've just written a blog post about the fact that the Gov. IT advisor for schools has just released a report saying that vista and office 2007 are not fit for purpose (it's at http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/) and that open-source should be considered as an alternative where appropriate. Is there a way in which the OSC and SFD could help each other out on this one? M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matthew(a)truthisfreedom.org.uk Please use ISO Approved file formats (.odt/.ods/.odp/.odg/.pdf) for attachments. If you wish to convert legacy Microsoft documents to these formats, please use Open Office (http://www.openoffice.org/)

Jan. 15, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD2007 in Bitola/Macedonia

by Pia Waugh

Hi Rick, <quote who="R Bahague Jr"> > We actually did not claim them from the post office because they arrived > late... :( Right, well I've made a note about getting stuff out earlier :) Thanks! Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Jan. 15, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD2007 in Bitola/Macedonia

by R Bahague Jr

Hi Pia, We actually did not claim them from the post office because they arrived late... :( Although we did a very successful event last year with Venezuelan Amb. sharing their foss initiatives. rick On Miy, 2008-01-16 at 08:00 +1100, Pia Waugh wrote: > Hi Rick, > > <quote who="R Bahague Jr"> > > > never got our's for the event. :( > > they arrived two weeks later. > > Erk, I'll take a note to send stuff out earlier. Most people got them in > time, and about 15 packages got sent back to me with balloons and such as > they weren't claimed by teams. > > Cheers, > Pia >

Jan. 15, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Was: FLOSS educational programmes

by Pia Waugh

Hi Judy, <quote who="Judy Okite"> > Hi all,This is a great idea and I would love to see it take shape!What > is at stake is to agree on courseware &examining body.Thx It doesn't need to be any _one_ courseware examining body. I think if we encouraged training and certs in general and perhaps create a list of appropriate ones and leave it up to the very capable individual teams to decide what is best for them. A short list of the top of my head: General computer use training: - INGOTS Technical training: - LPI (Linux Professional Institute - vendor neutral) - RHCE (Red Hat) - NCLE (Suse training) What else? Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Jan. 15, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD2007 in Bitola/Macedonia

by Pia Waugh

Hi Rick, <quote who="R Bahague Jr"> > never got our's for the event. :( > they arrived two weeks later. Erk, I'll take a note to send stuff out earlier. Most people got them in time, and about 15 packages got sent back to me with balloons and such as they weren't claimed by teams. Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

Jan. 15, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] Was: FLOSS educational programmes

by Judy Okite

Hi all,This is a great idea and I would love to see it take shape!What is at stake is to agree on courseware &examining body.Thx -- Judy Ann Okite, +254-721237507,+254-734252336 P.O. BOX 2228 00100, NAIROBI,KENYA. "May I be granted.... .....the serenity to accept the pages, I Should not edit..... ...the courage to edit the pages that ,I should..... and the wisdom to know the difference." The Wiki prayer On 1/15/08, Janet Hawtin <lucychili(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 16, 2008 6:31 AM, Pia Waugh <greebo(a)pipka.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was perusing through sfd-discuss and re-found this and I wanted to renew > > the discussion. > > > > <quote who="Steve Olive"> > > > > > It is up to us, the Open Source and Free Software Communities, to > > > encourage the use of qualifications that do not focus on a particular > > > brand of software. I also believe that these qualifications should not > > > be prohibitively priced, preventing students, who are often unemployed, > > > from taking the tests. They are better served spending the money on > > > computers and other hardware for use at home so they can better their > > > skills and find employment. > > > > > > Is this something the Software Freedom Day should look into? Registering > > > or certifying skills with software promoted on Software Freedom Day. > > > > Steve, what exactly do you have in mind here? We could certainly add > > something to the registration process or there is also the possibility of > > aligning with certifications and encouraging teams to do certification > > workshops and exams as part of their Software Freedom Day celebrations which > > would both draw attention to certifications and also get more qualified FOSS > > practitioners into the workforce every year. What do you think? > >The ingots competencies are agnostic. > http://theingots.org/ > Robyn Manning and Kylie Willison currently use them in South Australia > > There is also someone doing training in Mount Gambier > and Noven has done training with his network development in Copley. > >______________________________ _________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists /listinfo/sfd-discuss > >

Jan. 15, 2008

Re: [SFD-discuss] SFD2007 in Bitola/Macedonia

by R Bahague Jr

never got our's for the event. :( they arrived two weeks later. Rick www.cp-union.org (Philippines) On Miy, 2008-01-16 at 07:40 +1100, Pia Waugh wrote: > Hi Aleksander, > > <quote who="Aleksandar Balalovski"> > > > Our silly proposal :) would be that the next year more balloons are sent to > > the teams, because they make great effect on the celebration aura in the city > > where SFD is being celebrated, young people want balloons, babies want > > balloons, mothers and fathers want balloons for their children, and thus, > > everyone wants balloon, and people actually READ what is on the balloon :) > > Although this is a late response, we are in preprations for SFD 2008 (more > to come soon!) and I've taking this on board. We will get more balloons to > teams this year. Thanks for the feedback! > > Cheers, > Pia >

Jan. 15, 2008