Think about schools on the day
Hi If we accept that schools are one of the key mechanisms for change in society, then the idea of helping schools to think about the opportunities that FOSS can offer is a worthy pursuit. If you are looking for an activity for your team on the day then possibly doing something in the education arena might be a go - make a movie or some sort of presentation and publish it - collate resources (we have started something on the SFD website that you could contribute to) - invite teachers from local schools to your event - ? Hope this helps Peter -- Free and Open education for all Peter Ruwoldt Grant High School Hosking Avenue MOUNT GAMBIER SA 5290 P. 08 87263128 F. 08 87250173 ruwoldtp@granths.sa.edu.au http://ruwoldtp.googlepages.com/
Dnia niedziela 07 wrzesień 2008, Peter Ruwoldt napisał(a):
Hi If we accept that schools are one of the key mechanisms for change in society, then the idea of helping schools to think about the opportunities that FOSS can offer is a worthy pursuit.
If you are looking for an activity for your team on the day then possibly doing something in the education arena might be a go
- make a movie or some sort of presentation and publish it - collate resources (we have started something on the SFD website that you could contribute to) - invite teachers from local schools to your event - ?
Here in Poland there is a program (run by the Fundacja Wolnego i Otwartego Oprogramowania - "The Free and OpenSource Software Foundation") called "WiOO w Szkole" (translated as "FLOSS in School"). And they are doing some great job, all year round. Maybe it'd be an idea for other FLOSS apologists out there. ;) Cheers mike
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Peter Ruwoldt <ruwoldtp@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi If we accept that schools are one of the key mechanisms for change in society, then the idea of helping schools to think about the opportunities that FOSS can offer is a worthy pursuit.
If you are looking for an activity for your team on the day then possibly doing something in the education arena might be a go
The Kolkata team has an introductory programme for high school and college students. http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asiaandmiddleeast/india/ILUG-CALINFO Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc
The Computer Professionals' Union (CP-Union) here in the Philippines started already a FOSS @ schools programme. Yesterday, we introduced FOSS to about 1,500 students of a local university. We had 4 sessions on Ubuntu desktop Introduction, Openoffice.Org introduction and CMS (drupal and Joomla) for the students. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080905-158897/Grou... more details at www.cp-union.com the software freedom day organized by CP-Union has been focused to students and enthusiasts. This year, we have invited high schools and universities teaching it-related courses to join us on the event. It is our view that more than pushing foss to businesses, the real progress and success of FOSS relies on the youth and students. Rick On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Mani A <a.mani.cms@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Peter Ruwoldt <ruwoldtp@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi If we accept that schools are one of the key mechanisms for change in society, then the idea of helping schools to think about the opportunities that FOSS can offer is a worthy pursuit.
If you are looking for an activity for your team on the day then possibly doing something in the education arena might be a go
The Kolkata team has an introductory programme for high school and college students.
http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asiaandmiddleeast/india/ILUG-CALINFO
Best
A. Mani
-- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc
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Thanks Mani, Rick and Michal for your responses. I think that programs aimed at the education sector are particularly powerful. Would you be willing to contribute to the SFD wiki with some information about these activities for yours? On the "Resources for schools" page http://softwarefreedomday.org/Resources_to_support_schools I have added a table titled "FOSS related promotions in education" for this purpose If there are others that have contributions, please feel free to add them to this discussion and to the wiki. Thanks Peter 2008/9/8 rick <rbahaguejr@gmail.com>:
The Computer Professionals' Union (CP-Union) here in the Philippines started already a FOSS @ schools programme.
Yesterday, we introduced FOSS to about 1,500 students of a local university. We had 4 sessions on Ubuntu desktop Introduction, Openoffice.Org introduction and CMS (drupal and Joomla) for the students.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080905-158897/Grou...
more details at www.cp-union.com
the software freedom day organized by CP-Union has been focused to students and enthusiasts. This year, we have invited high schools and universities teaching it-related courses to join us on the event.
It is our view that more than pushing foss to businesses, the real progress and success of FOSS relies on the youth and students.
Rick
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Mani A <a.mani.cms@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Peter Ruwoldt <ruwoldtp@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi If we accept that schools are one of the key mechanisms for change in society, then the idea of helping schools to think about the opportunities that FOSS can offer is a worthy pursuit.
If you are looking for an activity for your team on the day then possibly doing something in the education arena might be a go
The Kolkata team has an introductory programme for high school and college students.
http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asiaandmiddleeast/india/ILUG-CALINFO
Best
A. Mani
-- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc
_______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss@sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss
-- --------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB57550EF Url: tek4dpipol.blogspot.com advocacy: www.cp-union.org Others: http://rbjrph.multiply.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------- Nobody knows who will win this fight, because the outcome depends on you and the readers. Will you fight for freedom? Will you reject Windows and MacOS and other non-free software, and switch to GNU/Linux? Or will you be too lazy to resist?
R. Stallman
_______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss@sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss
-- Free and Open education for all Peter Ruwoldt Grant High School Hosking Avenue MOUNT GAMBIER SA 5290 P. 08 87263128 F. 08 87250173 ruwoldtp@granths.sa.edu.au http://ruwoldtp.googlepages.com/
With our group (team fsugitalia from italy), we start collaboration with the osspg project. The osspg project is the work of 3 different high school, that want to use free software. Infact, our event is celebrated in one of this school. -- #################################### Alexjan Carraturo admin of Free Software Users Group Italia http://www.fsugitalia.org ####################################
2008/9/7 Peter Ruwoldt <ruwoldtp@gmail.com>:
Hi If we accept that schools are one of the key mechanisms for change in society, then the idea of helping schools to think about the opportunities that FOSS can offer is a worthy pursuit.
If you are looking for an activity for your team on the day then possibly doing something in the education arena might be a go
make a movie or some sort of presentation and publish it collate resources (we have started something on the SFD website that you could contribute to) invite teachers from local schools to your event ?
Here in Rosario (Argentina), one of the activities for the SFD 2008 will be a discussion pannel: "State, Society and Free Software" Moderator: AUS Patricia Giardini | Director Dirección General de Informática | Municipality of Rosario * Appropriation of technology and Free Software | Danilo Lujambio | Member of Nodo Tau * Importance of the use of Free Software in the education of towns | Prof. Javier Castrillo | Member Gleducar * Free Software in the Universities | Dr. Raúl Kantor | Teacher UNR and UTN * Free Software: A reality in the Municipality of Rosario Ing Mariela Bornemann | Sub Director Dirección General de Informática | Municipality of Rosario +Gleducar (http://www.gleducar.org.ar/) is an educational project, collaborative and cooperative that pursues the adequacy of Argentinian classrooms to the new technologies in communications and information, making a shift in the paradigm of production, construction and dissemination of educational content. All this afirmed, facilitated and enhanced by the use of educative Free Software. Several members will be participating in the SFD. +The UNR (http://www.unr.edu.ar/) is National University of Rosario and the UTN (http://www.utn.edu.ar/default.utn) is National Technologic University. We have also invited students, teachers and authorities from different schools and universities.
Hope this helps
Peter
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Alexjan Carraturo -
Julio Cesar Puigpinos -
Mani A -
Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak -
Peter Ruwoldt -
rick