[Opensource] Software Freedom Day - support for schools

[Roland Gesthuizen]

I agree with Donna, need to put these into the hands of parents.

Many teachers hold the mistaken belief that operating systems and software
is free (we can probably blame the skewed thinking that happens around
state-wide select agreements that hide the true costs)

Cameron, what ISO image did you use? CDs are so cheap to make that I might
budget some of our school eLearning funding to produce a school open CD that
we can give to all parents.

Regards Roland

2008/5/8 Donna Benjamin <donna at cc.com.au>:

> Hey Peter,


> It would be good to co-ordinate plans to celebrate a little... encourage
> more schools to register and run activities.
>
> I was at the education show last year and handed a teacher an OpenCD.
> She looked at it, listened to my spiel, and glanced at the brochure.
> Then she looked me in the eye and said
>  "You're serious?"
>  "yep" I said.
>  "Why don't more people know about this. It's brilliant".
>
> Yep.  SFD is a great way of getting the word out to more people and
> engaging with the community.  But better than that - it really is a
> global event.
>
> Who else is planning on running SFD activities this year?
>
> What assistance do you need to do it?
>
> What resistance are you facing?
>
> - Donna
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 07:22 +0930, Peter Ruwoldt wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am on the SFI board that organises "Software Freedom Day", a global
> > event that supports local communities to celebrate and educate how
> > Free Open Source Software can benefit people in their area.
> >
> > FOSS fits well with the ideal 'Free and Open Education' by being able
> > to give the learning tools to students so that they can use, share and
> > build upon them. Collaboration and sharing fits well with this ideal
> > and FOSS.
> >
> > One of our objectives for 2008 is to better support schools to host
> > Software Freedom Day events. For schools already making use of FOSS,
> > it is a great way to help their community understand what and why they
> > are doing this and to involve their FOSS communities in the process.
> >
> > I would like to start some conversations about this so that we can
> > better understand how to help schools participate and to share
> > stories, resources and experience. If you want, you could put these
> > ideas straight onto the SFD wiki
> >
> > http://softwarefreedomday.org/Resources_to_support_schools
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > 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 at granths.sa.edu.au
> > http://ruwoldtp.googlepages.com/
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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