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<title>FSFE - Education</title>
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<h2>Education</h2>
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<title>Free Software in the Education - FSFE</title>
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<h3>Contents</h3>
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<p id="category"><a href="/projects/work.html/">Our work</a></p>
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<h1>Free Software in Education</h1>
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<a href="#general">General</a>
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<a href="#associations">Associations</a>
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<a href="#column">Column</a>
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<a href="#contact">Contact</a>
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<p id="introduction">
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We actively promote the use of Free Software in schools and universities as
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it encourages schooling of understanding over product training and upholds
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the scientific principle.
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We have set up an Education Task Force to focus on these efforts. It acts as
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a hub and works on monitoring the European situation. We participate in Free
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Software events and assist other initiatives in making the change possible.
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</p>
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<a name="general"></a>
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<h3>General</h3>
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<p>
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The team currently develops a guide how to successfully deploy Free Software
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in schools and universities. Amongst other arguments here are four of the key
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benefits:
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<p> The Free Software Foundation Europe actively promotes the
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use of Free Software in schools and universities. Free Software
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is pedagogically and technologically superior to proprietary
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systems. But more importantly, its basic spirit involving freedom and
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cooperation is the same spirit of education in a democratic environment.
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<ul>
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<p>
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We have a more <a href="argumentation.html">detailed argumentation</a>
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which sums up why we think that Free Software
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is the kind of software which should be used in education.
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<li>Sharing: Using free software allows schools to teach children to share
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and cooperate.</li>
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<a name="associations"></a>
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<h3>Associations</h3>
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<li>Learning to program: The possibility/freedom to tinker motivates children
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to learn more.</li>
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<li>Easy to administer: Free Software is stable, secure and reliable. It
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offers unrestricted access to the source code, thus allowing to modify or
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adapt it to the schools needs.</li>
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<p> Please check out the
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<a href="http://www.gnu.org/education/">pages on education</a>
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of the GNU Project.
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<li>Licenses: With Free Software, teachers can give a copy to each student.
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There is no risk to mislead any child to use an illegal copy.</li>
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<p>
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There are already some organisations which support and advocate the
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use of Free Software in education:
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</p>
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</ul>
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The <a href="http://www.ofset.org/">Organisation for Free Software
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in Education and Teaching</a> (OFSET) promotes the development of free
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software for the educational system and teaching. OFSET is an associated
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organisation of the FSFE.
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The <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/osie">Open Source in Education</a>
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Project (OSiE) supports and advocates the use of GNU/Linux systems in the UK.<br/>
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Please note that OSiE uses the term "Open Source" which we avoid for
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<a href="/documents/whyfs.en.html">various reasons</a>.
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The <a href="http://fsub.schule.de/">Freie Software und Bildung e.V.</a>
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(FSuB e.V., Association for Free Software and Education) promotes the use of GNU/Linux
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systems in German schools.<br/>
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Please note that the FSuB e.V. accepts the use of proprietary software on top of
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free platforms, a position with which we strongly disagree.
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<a href="http://www.linuxdidattica.org/">Software libero nella scuola</a>, an Italian
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initiative for Free Software in schools.
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The <a href="http://www.laka.lv/">Latvian Open Source Association</a> (LAKA) also helps
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schools and promotes the use of GNU/Linux in schools.<br/>
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Please note that LAKA uses the term "Open Source" which we avoid for
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<a href="/documents/whyfs.en.html">various reasons</a>.
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</li>
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<h2 id="subpages">Navigation</h2>
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<li><a href="http://www.fuss.bz.it/">
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Free Upgrade Southtyrol's Schools</a> (FUSS) is not an association,
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but a project funded by the European Social Fund which has upgraded
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the computer systems of all the italian schools in the Autonomous
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Province of Bolzano/Bozen, removing all the software with a
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proprietary license used in the school activity with the FUSS
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GNU/Linux Soledad distribution. The project has developed the software
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solution and released it under a free software license.
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<ul>
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<h3><a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/Reasons_for_schools_to_use_Free_Software">Detailed argumentation</a></h3>
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<p>
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More reasons for schools to use Free Software.
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</li>
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<h3><a href="http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-eu">Education mailing list</a></h3>
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Join the discussion about Free Software in education.
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<h3><a
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href="http://www.gnu.org/education">GNU's education page</a></h3>
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The <a href="/about/basics/gnuproject.html">GNU project</a> also maintains a info page on Free Software in education.
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<a name="column"></a>
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<h3>Column</h3>
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Mario Fux writes a <a href="./tgs/tgs.en.html">two-monthly column called TUX&GNU@school</a> which
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the FSFE explicitly and actively supports under its roof.
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</p>
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<a name="contact"></a>
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<h3>Contact</h3>
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If you are interested in general discussion about Free Software and
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education issues or would like to participate, please join our
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<a href="http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-eu/">mailing list</a>.
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<br/>
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Furthermore, the Free Software Foundation Europe has created an
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<a href="eduteam.html">education task force</a> who aims to act as
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a hub for national efforts in Europe.
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