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[Dominic Knight]

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Subject: [lugmaster] Free Software and education
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 12:32:14 +0000
From: Richard Smedley <richard.smedley@futurenet.co.uk>
To: lugmaster@mailman.lug.org.uk

Hello everyone,

I'd be grateful if you'd forward this to your LUGs -
I'd also be interested to hear of any experiences
(negative or positive) that anyone has had in
talking to schools about using Free Software.

- Richard
richard@sc.lug.org.uk





http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2003q1/000048.html
 :

   FSF Europe welcomes the TUX&GNU@school  column

January, 7th 2003
Hamburg/Essen/Valais

   The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Europe officially welcomes Mario
   Fux' TUX&GNU@school <mailto:GNU@school> column whose future editions
 will be published under the umbrella of the FSF Europe.

   Each edition of the column contains a presentation of a Free
 educational software program, valuable tips to web sites that deal
 with Free Software and education, user testimonies as well as
 suggestions for new small programs for pupils and teachers. All
 editions will be published in German and English first.

   The FSF Europe provides infrastructure and an organizational
 framework, such as web space and mailing lists for lectors and
 translators. With this support, Mario Fux continues to write his
 column. The column is free documentation and the GNU Free
 Documentation License (GNU FDL) and will be developed in an open
 manner. In consequence, any interested person can work on the project
 as a lector or translator.

   TUX&GNU@school <mailto:GNU@school> is a logical step to extend the
 promotion of Free Software in the educational sector. Mario Fux
 emphasizes: "GNU/Linux and Free Software in schools have become at
 least as viable as proprietary software in the meantime" and
 continues: "I'm again and again surprised how big the choice of Free
 educational programs is", contradicting critics of Free Software who
 often claim a lack of applications for the GNU platform.

   Also the didactic and social aspects of the use of Free Software in
   schools are of special importance:
   "In the past, computer science education has concentrated too much
   teaching products instead of comprehension", says Georg C.F. Greve,
   President of the FSF Europe. Greve continues: "Free Software enables
   the interactive understanding of outer and inner workings of a
 computer and furthermore ensures an equality of chances for all
 pupils".

   The FSF Europe thanks Mario Fux for his hitherto efforts and looks
   forward to his future editions, which are available at
   http://www.fsfeurope.org/education/tgs/ .

About the Free Software Foundation Europe

   The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) is a charitable
   non-governmental organization dedicated to all aspects of Free
   Software in Europe. Access to software determines who may
 participate in a digital society. Therefore the freedoms to use, copy,
 modify and redistribute software - as described in the Free Software
 definition - allow equal participation in the information age.
 Creating awareness for these issues, securing Free Software
 politically and legally, and giving people freedom by supporting
 development of Free Software are central issues of the FSF Europe,
 which was founded in 2001 as the European sister organization of the
 Free Software Foundation in the United States.

   http://www.fsfeurope.org

Contact

   FSF Europe:
   Georg C. F. Greve   <greve@fsfeurope.org
 <mailto:greve@fsfeurope.org>> phone: +49-40-23809080
   fax:   +49-40-23809081

   TUX&GNU@school  column:
   Mario Fux           <foxman@lugo.ch <mailto:foxman@lugo.ch>>



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