[Opensource] Software Freedom Day - support for schools

[Donna Benjamin]

Hey Peter,

Software Freedom Day is September 20 this year.  

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
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
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