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EURO 2012 in Free Software – qualification results June 7, 2011

The last qualification matches until August in our EURO 2012 in Free Software and open standards just ended. Here are the results:

Group Country I Country II Score I Score II A Azerbaijan Germany 0 3 C Faroe Island Estonia 0 3 D Belarus Luxembourg 0 1 D Bosnia and Herzegovina Albania 1 1 E [...]

EURO 2012 in Free Software – qualification results June 4, 2011

Another day in our EURO 2012 in Free Software and open standards. I won’t comment on the matches today and just provide the results and the remark that Armenia will not make it into the finals. You may want to read yesterday’s posting for more info.

04.06.11 B Macedonia Republic of Ireland 2 1 [...]

EURO 2012 in Free Software – qualification results June 3, 2011

Here are todays results of our EURO 2012 in Free Software and open standards.

Turkey vs. Belgium was difficult. I don’t know what happend in the meantime, but I feel that having developed an own distribution and have it installed on every school computer plus making Free Software part of the official curriculum should have [...]

Free Software in education survey in UK

Surveying Prism Reflector (cc-by 2.0)

The OSS Watch Research Technologies Service published their bi-yearly “National Software Survey 2010″.

I haven’t heard about it before and I didn’t even had the chance to read it thoroughly, but it looks as if it contains a lot of useful information. It would be good to have such [...]

Free Software in Education – March/April 2011

Here is again a list of things I came across over the last two months:

There is an article on techlearning.com (warning: terrible commercial blocker!) which answers 8 claims that are often brought agains Free Software solutions in education:

Open source is way too expensive. We can’t afford to change everything! Our teachers won’t use [...]

EURO2012 in FS qualification – on razor’s edge

razor's edge by kholkute (cc-by-sa)

The last matches in March took place today. Things can change quickly and as we just learned a few days ago, a former “loser” can turn into a group winner. As of today, every single country still has the theoretical chance to make it into the finals. But after [...]

EURO2012 in Free Software qualification – Latvia catching up

Baltic Sea waterfront / Ventspils, Latvia (cc-by-sa by anjči)

After the EURO2012 in Free Software continued yesterday, we have twelve other matches to look at today. Israel vs. Latvia was especially interesting because Latvia caught up just recently and was able to beat the best country in this group so far. Thus, chances are [...]

EURO2012 in Free Software qualification – March 25

After a few months pause, the qualification for our EURO 2012 in Free Software will keep me busy for the next few days. The results of today’s matches can be found in this posting. Any comment is welcome.

"German Michel" missing a revelution in 1848

Austria vs. Belgium again: no changes here. The funny [...]

Free Software in education: January – February 2011

Time for edu news again. The draft of the mission statement for the edu team kept me busy the last two months and will continue to do so for a little while. If you have a few minutes at hand, please read it and send us any feed back you might have!

Before we come [...]

Valentine’s greetings to “remind” by David F. Skoll #Ilovefs

It’s too late for my current location, but it’s still Valentines Day in some parts of the world.

Inspired by the #ilovefs campaign of FSFE, I want to say thank you to David F. Skoll who maintains remind so gallantly. His patience and friendliness on the mailing list to any newbie is exemplary as [...]