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Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:59:47 +0200 |
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Hello,
please find below some news I bumped into recently. Do you consider this
interesting / useful? Or spam? Could you point me to other websites covering
education, free software etc.?
US: Google gives $300K to OSU Open Source Lab (2009-08-11)
http://www.kval.com/news/tech/52969777.html
- press-release: “Google is proud to support OSU’s continued work on improving
open source software and making it available to people world-wide.”
IT: University of Verona moving to open source desktop (2009-08-06)
http://www.osor.eu/news/it-university-of-verona-moving-to-open-source-desktop
- The University of Verona in Italy started a three year program last January
to migrate most of its more than 4000 PCs to open source.
VE: Venezuela to Provide Children with 50,000 Mini Laptops (2009-07-29)
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4672
- Project Canaima will provide primary schools with mini laptops, running
GNU/Linux. Workshops for teachers already have started.
UK: Local business and Education provider work together to bring Open Source
to the classroom (2009-07-24)
http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/11549.html
- press-release: A Newark based company have been working with a range of
classes from Level one to Level three students studying ICT to open minds for
alternative operating systems.
LK: Rural Sri Lanka gets IT push from Microsoft (2009-07-24)
http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/fullstory.php?nid=909218622
- Microsoft Sri Lanka began to make information technology popular in rural
areas, with a local language interface, free software downloads and training.
IN: Kerala govt saves crores with free software (2009-07-24)
http://www.merinews.com/article/kerala-govt-saves-crores-with-free-
software/15777018.shtml
- The advantage of using free software is not only cost reduction, there are
philosophical reasons behind this including sharing of knowledge the State
Minister of Education said.
PL: Jaworzno moves schools to open source desktops (2009-07-14)
http://www.osor.eu/news/pl-jaworzno-moves-schools-to-open-source-desktops
- The Polish municipality of Jaworzno is migrating all schools to open source.
Money saved in this way will be used to increase the number of computers for
use by the students.
AT: LinuxAdvanced 9.1 released (2009-07-03)
http://www.linuxadvanced.at/la_index.html
- Debian based distribution with special emphasis on educational needs and
tailored for use as a live-system (german language)
DE: Art colleges move desktop and servers to open source (2009-06-30)
http://www.osor.eu/news/de-art-colleges-move-desktop-and-servers-to-open-
source
- Three art colleges in Berlin this month started moving all desktop PCs and
servers to open source. The colleges also plan to make available as open
source their teacher contracts management application.
mfg
Thomas Jensch, Intern - Zurich office
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