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Re: [SFD-discuss] FLOSS educational programmes (Steve Olive)
by Gadhula Rumbidzayi Oct. 17, 2007

Oct. 17, 2007

I am totally in support of floss educational programmes and I believe that OO will be the ideal starting point as it is about basic computer literacy and not exceptionally technical aspects. I also think it is very relevant particularly to schools in Zimbabwe. I used to teach at a school where the computers had been donated and came with all the software installed. The school had no connectivity to the internet and therefore we could not activate the M$ Office. If we had knowledge and access to the FLOSS alternative, our situation wouldn't have been desperate I have also managed to install Ubuntu on some few PCs that are used by students at my place of work. The students still use them for Internet access (Firefox) and they edit the documents they download using FLOSS alternative. This was not a planned implementation (like yours), it was a necessity due to hardware limitations and they have never complained. Generally students are eager to learn and gain skills without the skills being specific to a particular brand and FLOSS IS A GIFT to them. Xolani I am totally in support of your project and can you keep the list posted on the developments? I would like to see this take-off and if I can help just let me know and I will be happy to assist. I am sure this will be a success. When do you think this project will be ready for take-off?

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FLOSS educational programmes
by xolani Ndlovu Oct. 15, 2007

Oct. 15, 2007

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.

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what comes first
by xolani Ndlovu Oct. 15, 2007

Oct. 15, 2007

well then what comes first the industry adopting FLOSS or people/students being taught how to use FLOSS .I believe the teaching and training comes first then then the industry can switch to floss and one cannot justify using pirated software (its a crime) most companies in Zimbabwe we have approached are willing to switch but caught in the predicament of FLOSS literacy.schools are ready to teach floss along side windows. -- member of OpenSourceBulawayo free software as in freedom

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Competition entries
by Pia Waugh Oct. 8, 2007

Oct. 8, 2007

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/

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SFD 2007 in Trinidad
by Dev Teelucksingh Oct. 4, 2007

Oct. 4, 2007

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/

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Gnome + SFD celebration
by Peter Eisinger Oct. 1, 2007

Oct. 1, 2007

Boston MA, USA -- August 15, 2007 -- A one month, world-wide celebration of GNOME's tenth anniversary begins this week, culminating in mid-September with Software Freedom Day [1] Mailing lists: UP! ;) [1] http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/gnome10years.html Cheers, Peter http://PreguntasLinux.Org/ Comunidad de Software Libre Foro GNU/Linux/FOSS/*NIX Support Installfest FLISoL SFD

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Competition entries almost due!
by Pia Waugh Sept. 30, 2007

Sept. 30, 2007

Hi all, Just a quick reminder that your competition entries are almost due. We are extending the deadline for entries for one week, so your entries are now due by the 7th October. Details on the competition are below. Good luck everyone! http://softwarefreedomday.org/Competition2007 Cheers, Pia -- Software Freedom Day 2007 http://softwarefreedomday.org/

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Celebration SFD'07 in Guinea
by camara Sept. 26, 2007

Sept. 26, 2007

Hi all, I inform you that the team SFD-Guinea organized in prelude of Software Freedom Day a series of formations activities, informations activities, of sensitizing and promotion activities under the free software topic. This day was celebrated under the topic "free Software, a solution of reduction of the numerical fracture in Guinea" and was placed under the presidency of its Excellence Mister the Minister for the communication and new information technologies. A - Formations Activities : 1. of September 10-14: Workshop of initiation to the computer science and the operating system GNU/Linux for the pupils, students and graduates, a number of participation 220 divided into three groups and two levels 2.Atelier of initiation in GNU/Linux and OpenOffice.org for the secretary of the public office and deprived, a number of participant: 38. 3. Workshop ADEN (Support with desenclavement numerical) for the managers of the cybercafés, numbers participants 52. This workshop was deferred fault of financial means B- Information and sensitizing activities : 1. Animation of two radio transmissions for information and sensitizing 2. Four publi report in the television C - Activities of promotion 1. the installs partys were organized from the 10 to September 15 2. more than 150 CD-ROOM of Ubuntu and 100 of OpenCD were distributed. One received the request to engrave of more than 180 CD-Room de Ubuntu and OpenCD. In addition, one received the request of more than 100 new membres to our association. Actually, we work on the report and we would like to take part in the price of the best organization of SFD2007 but the expiry is very short. the photos will be soon available on line Thank.

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wesnoth tournament
by Noven Purnell-Webb Sept. 25, 2007

Sept. 25, 2007

I look at the photos from all the wonderful SFD events around the globe and I am proud to have been a small part of it. However I was feeling a bit bummed about our low turnout in comparison to other places - we had 14 people. Then my wife pointed out that as Copley has a permament population of 102 people we actually got 13.725% of the population - that seems like a very respectable figure :) One of the biggest reasons I hear from people against switching to Linux is the lack of games, so we had a networked Battle for Wesnoth tournament - which the gamers *loved*. The impact was somewhat diminished when I could give them a windows copy to take home, but meh, it's still FOSS. Anyway my idea is that next year we have an international BfW tournament. Anyone out there feel they could take on the might of the Copley Crew? We can talk details when we start gearing up for next year, just thought I'd float the idea while I'm thinking about it in case I forget and someone else remembers - and to give would-be challengers time to practice :p - Noven -- --- > MageData: extreme technomancy <

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Hi, SFDay Pasto 2007 success
by andress calderon Sept. 24, 2007

Sept. 24, 2007

more 300 people, talks, Burn Open CD's, Share Ubuntu CD's and a great Linux Games Tournament you can see... http://www.flickr.com/photos/14154308@N08/sets/72157602135102200/ Happy Software Freedom Day!!! Hasta el proximo año -- ANDRES O. CALDERON R. kKoDDa Group / Estrategia PIC ParqueSoft Pasto "Free Software Lives - Free Software Rules"

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