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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 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 [...]

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 [...]

EURO2012 in Free Software – Look East!

The wiki pages for our little tournament have just been updated according to the latest results. Sorry for the delay, oher things pushed this task further down in my ToDo list, but now it’s done.

Saint Basil's Cathedral, Moscow (cc by-sa 2.0)

Since we have to wait until March 25, 2011 for any further [...]

FreeDroidz workshop with tarent

Not too long ago, I mentioned a workshop with FreeDroidz in this blog. I heard about these robots before, saw them at fairs and haven’t known much about our host, except that they are the sponsor of the Fellowship grant. Matthias asked me if I was interested in leading such a work shop at schools [...]

EURO 2012 in FS – qualification day #8

Croatia fan truck by by Alison Ratcliffe (cc-by-2.0)

The last two qualification matches of this year took place today:

Finland vs. San Marino 2:0 (well, in soccer they won 8:0!)

This was easy since we have no entries for San Marino in our wiki.

Croatia vs. Malta 2:1

But this was a tough decision [...]

Upcoming Jabber-meeting on Free Software in Education

In two weeks, there will be a Jabber meeting about the activities of FSFE’s Edu-Team.  We will ask for opinions on Free Software and education and the future of the edu team. Got any ideas?

Well, I thought it might help if I post some of my thoughts beforehand to discuss, even if you don’t [...]

Euro 2012 in Free Software – qualification day #7 Moules Frites vs. Sachertorte

Here are todays results of our EURO 2012 in Free Software and open standards. This time, I found the match Belgium vs. Austria the most challenging.

Moules Frites (cc by-sa 2.0)

Sachertorte (cc by-sa 3.0)

It looks easy considering only the public administration page where we have the following:

In Vienna, they [...]

Euro 2012 qualification day #5 and the sick man of Europe

Another qualification day for the EURO2012 in Free Software with proposed results.

sick man (cc-by 2.0)

FSFE president Karsten Gerloff recently wrote a blog post about the situation in the UK. He writes “Britain is the sick man of Europe in terms of Free Software adoption.” The results below agree with this. I think [...]