participation of FSFE to World Education Forum

[raphael calvelli]

Hi my friends,

I aksed FSFE if they were agreed about official participation of FSFE 
in the World Education Forum, that will be held in Porto Alegre next 
24-27 october. (see http://www.forummundialdeeducacao.com.br/)

They agreed on the condition that I take in charge all the work, 
which I accepted. And so this participation was launched. In a hurry, 
because deadline for sending articles is August 31, and personally 
I'm taking my holidays just now, far from my computer, until 26 
August.

As I was looking for an address for that event, Georg reminded me 
address@hidden list, that we agreed to use as mail address for the 
event (is this list open for sending mails?). Double advantage: looks 
really fsfeurope, and messages arrive to a lot of highly selected and 
qualified people that we are in this list. Our discussions still have 
address@hidden

I'm sending right now on a few lists the first call for papers for 
this event. If somebody in this mailing list wants to write an 
article, it would be a great thing. Those articles will be in the 
official report of the Forum, so they will have a great diffusion 
worldwide. We can send up to 10 articles. Several aspects have to be 
illustrated according to me:

-presentation of use of  libre software in the class room,
-what is libre software
-which conception of computer we want in the next century,
-information technology a a right not a luxury,
-presenting the GNU project of sharing the knowledge
-libre documents, what is and what for?

and so on, here there are 6 suggestions. They have to be written in 
english (or portugese!), be very divulgative (for computer-non 
specialists), and I think 4500 letters (3 pages) are enough. Post 
them to the list and on August 27 I will send them to the WEF.

If somebody wants to participate in the organisation of this forum, 
let me know, more than welcome. Those people can also answer directly 
to the mail arriving, putting address@hidden in Cc:

I put in Cc: only the english call for papers.
You will see that I put it a bit wide (making a cd-rom, etc.). It may 
require more work if we want to do all that, but it may be 
interesting.

I think it will be for that occasion useful to reorganise all 
information in a easy-to-read way, on one or two websites.

Sorry for not having discussed this on the list more widely, but it's 
a bit in a hurry and I think it's ok anyway.


Raphael