Re: RfD: "European Meeting on Free Software in Education"

[Odile Bénassy]

Christian Selig a écrit :
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> please look at the attachment and take a moment to comment on it. It's a
> text file for your convenience.

has anybody made a comment so far ?

> 
> Bye,
>   Christian
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Free Software Foundation Europe
> 
> Working Group "Free Software in Education"
> 
> Request for Discussion:
> "European Meeting on Free Software in Education"
> 
> 1. Purpose
> 
> Free Software has been promoted in some European countries through local
> associations for some time. The Free Software Foundation Europe seeks to
> strengthen these efforts through linking the scattered associations and
> advocating the use of Free Software.
> 
> Despite the fact that on-line communication has numerous advantages, there
> are quite a few reasons why people should meet face-to-face:
> 
>   * A extremely low response time, so ideas can evolve faster
>   * The possibility of getting a picture of the people whose names
>     you usually only know from their mail headers
>   * A possibility to get in touch with governmental authorities
> 
> 2. Goal
> 
> The meeting shall create an impulse for the promotion of the use of Free
> Software in schools and higher education. It is of importance to have
> members of some ministries of education and initiatives for europe-wide
> school cooperation at that meeting.
> 
> 3. Program
> 
> Considering that there might be people who don't yet know what Free
> Software is or people who have only heard of the Open Source "philosophy"
> yet, there should be someone who gives the usual introduction on GNU and
> the Free Software Movement. I think this requires a more politically oriented
> speech, using less Richard Stallman's style of speaking in personal terms.
> 
> Then, which could -- or maybe even should -- be a discussion about why
> Free Software is "the right thing" especially for educational institutions,
> should take place.
> 
> Perhaps some people of the participating organizations can point to or
> present successful use of Free Systems (esp. GNU/Linux) in schools.
> 
> Besides the program, some Free Software projects (Gnome, KDE, ...) could
> host booths.
> 
> The program should be limited to a single day.
> 
> 4. Financial/Org
> 
> The best thing would be to find a ministry which is willing to host such a
> meeting. The French or the German ministry of education comes to mind.
> 
> I don't think that we have a chance to get gov. agencies "into the boat" if
> we do it somewhere else without gov. support.
> 
> 5. Timeline
> 
> Hard to say - Free Software has always been a long-term operation, so
> we are in no desperate hurry. The end of 2001 or the first half of 2002
> might be reasonable.
> 
> --
> (c) 2001 by Christian Selig
> v 0.1 Initial version
> This document is under the GFDL

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