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<title>FSF Europe - Education</title>
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<h2>Education</h2>
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<h3>General</h3>
<p> The Free Software Foundation Europe actively promotes the
use of Free Software in schools and universities. Free Software
is pedagogically and technologically superior to proprietary
systems. But more importantly, its basic spirit involving freedom and cooperation
is the same spirit of education in a democratic environment.
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We have a more <a href="argumentation.html">detailed argumentation</a>
which sums up why we think that Free Software
is the kind of software which should be used in education.
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<h3>Associations</h3>
<p> Please check out the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/education/">pages on education</a>
of the GNU Project.
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<p> There are already some organizations which support and advocate the
use of Free Software in education:
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<ul>
<li> The <a href="http://www.ofset.org/">Organization for Free Software
in Education and Teaching</a> (OFSET) promotes the development of free software
for the educational system and teaching. OFSET is an associated organization of
the FSF Europe.
</li>
<li> The <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/osie">Open Source in Education</a>
Project (OSiE) supports and advocates the use of GNU/Linux systems in the UK.
</li>
<li> The <a href="http://fsub.schule.de/">Freie Software und Bildung e.V.</a>
(FSuB e.V., Association for Free Software and Education) promotes the use of GNU/Linux
systems in German schools.<br/>
Please note that the FSuB e.V. accepts the use of proprietary software on top of
free platforms, a position with which we strongly disagree.
</li>
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<h3>Contact</h3>
<p> If you are interested in general discussion about Free Software and education issues
or would like to participate, please join our
<a href="http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-eu/">mailing list</a>.
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<h3>Educational Task Force</h3>
<p>
To speed up and increase communication in the educational
field, the Free Software Foundation Europe have created an
educational task force, currently consisting of Hilaire
Fernandes, Mario Fux, Georg Greve, Aigars Mahinovs, Alessandro
Rubini, Chritian Selig, Richard Smedley. Our goals are:
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networking Free Software in Education efforts and energies
to connect people, thus avoiding duplication of efforts (i.e.,
there are three databases with free edu software);
</li>
<li>
spreading information about Free Software in Education;
</li>
<li>
spreading information about the importance of software
freedoms;
</li>
<li>
communicating through the <a
href="mailto:edu-team@fsfeurope.org">edu-team@fsfeurope.org</a>
mailing list.
</li>
</ul>
<p>
If you want to be part of this effort (which means that you
are devoted to it, not just observing), we have some
requirements:
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<li>
experience with GNU/Linux, Free Software and education;
</li>
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a clear "No" to non-free software;
</li>
<li>
advantageous: previous work in that field;
</li>
<li>
you should live in Europe (i.e. NA, India and China have
their own FSF educational efforts, so please join them if
you live there).
</li>
</ul>
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The task force can be reached via
edu-team@fsfeurope.org. Currently, we have contacts in France,
Germany, Italy, Latvia, Switzerland and the UK. I hope that
we can find ways to receive EU funding and get in touch with
politicians.
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