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In the last few months I was busy gathering information about Free Software in education. My list of bookmarks grew longer and longer since there are a million interesting pages out there. Collecting, and just collecting will not produce any results. Thus, I declare this introductory phase as over and will review what I have […] I just read an article (German) which states that the migration process in German federal administration is making progress. They also launced a competence center for “open source”. Very interesting. Is anybody aware of similar projects/bureaus that assist government agencies with their migration process in other European countries? I would think, the obstacles they […] Free Software in education became my favourite subject and I started collecting info about that matter in the wiki. Some news don’t really fit in there, so I intend to post them here in the future. If you hear or read anything about Free Software in education, please let me know! Here is what I […] The green party in North Rhine-westphalia demands Free Software in public administration (German). “Free Software offers great opportunities for a knowledge based society through variety, sustainability and security. The system of “open code” and “open standards” allows fair competition, precludes monopolies and ensures innovation.” The downer: the proposal uses the term Free Software only once […] Being on the prowl for hardware vendors who meet our demands for Free Software (or at least move towards them) I found out that the university of Vienna sells laptops to their students with GNU/Linux pre-installed. I learned that a similar project has been going on since September in Switzerland. (the links are in […] Pro-Linux led me to this blog-entry. Apparently, there are more and more notebooks, with pre-installed GNU/Linux on the way… Businesswire announced that OpenMoko is now a separate company of FIC. Further infos can be found here. Asus will start to offer the EeePC in Europe starting December. They seem to fulfill the GPL now after some discrepancies in the beginning. Recently, I started collecting news about hardware vendors who are favoring Free Software. Here is a new one: WLAN routers with a free configurable Debian GNU/Linux on it can be obtained by Saxnet. A complete list of what I’ve collected so far can be found on http://wiki.fsfe.org/Hardware_vendors |