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Joinup reports: Using Free Software in school greatly reduces the time needed to troubleshoot PCs After migrating to Free Software in the Augustinian College of León, Spain: “For teachers and staff, the amount of technical issues decreased by 63 per cent and in the school’s computer labs by 90 per cent.” (emphasis added) Good to […] Galicia introducing over 50 000 students to free software tools, making it part of their 2014-2015 curriculum. In May Amtega, Galicia’s agency for technological modernisation signed a acontract with the three universities in the region, the Galician Association of Free Software (AGASOL) and six of the region’s free software user groups. The last paragraph of […] I haven’t informed you about recent education news as I was busy preparing for talks about the same subject. The latest was at DORS/CLUC in Zagreb, a traditional FS event that celebrated its 22nd version! Wow, the only computing device I owned back then was a calculator when the first DORS/CLUG came to light. I […] January was quite busy for me, but I still managed to collect some things. If you come accross anything that might be worth mentioning in this series, please drop me a note, dump it in this pad or drop it on the edu-eu mailinglist! FSFE Edu-Team activities The first physical edu-team meeting took place alongside […] Here’s what we collected in December. If you come accross anything that might be worth mentioning in this series, please drop me a note, dump it in this pad or drop it on the edu-eu mailinglist! FSFE Edu-Team activities Missed this in November: Sebastian informs about the CodeWeek Award in Germany more preparations for the […] Here is a quick report from our last meeting in Frankfurt/M. which took place on December 3rd. End of touring around Frankfurt As discussed at some previous meetings, we decided to stop our tour around Frankfurt after the second round. It was a nice experiment with many interesting discussions, a lot of new faces and […] Here’s what we collected in November. I have to say, it is not much this time. If you come accross anything that might be worth mentioning in this series, please drop me a note, dump it in this pad or drop it on the edu-eu mailinglist! FSFE Edu-Team activities Wolf-Dieter attended an event in the […] Here’s what we collected in October. If you come accross anything that might be worth mentioning in this series, please drop me a note, dump it in this pad or drop it on the edu-eu mailinglist! FSFE Edu-Team activities We gained a new member from the Netherlands I attended an OER barcamp in Cologne Erik […] Here’s what we collected in September. If you come accross anything that might be worth mentioning in this series, please drop me a note, dump it in this pad or send it on the edu-eu mailinglist! FSFE Edu-Team activities As usual, more work on the edu pages on fsfe.org. A first draft is now online […] During the meeting in Essen, we had one work shop in which we discussed best practices for doing advocacy work on a local level. As local politics usually have different competences and regulations and vary a lot throughout Europe (they vary a lot inside Germany alone). It is impossible for FSFE staff to cover all […] |