[Opensource] Software Freedom Day - support for schools

[victor rajewski]

For those schools/individuals that use netspace as their ISP, they
have provided a mirror of the openeducationdisc:
ftp://ftp.netspace.net.au/pub/OpenEducationDisc/ - downloads from the
mirror don't attract usage hits for netspace customers

vik

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Cameron Bell
<bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
> I used the OpenDisc iso, but don't know the version number. I'll check on
> Monday.
> C
>
> Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
>>
>> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto:ruwoldtp at granths.sa.edu.au>
>>    > http://ruwoldtp.googlepages.com/
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