EURO 2012 in Free Software – qualification results June 4, 2011
Another day in our EURO 2012 in Free Software and open standards. I won’t comment on the matches today and just provide the results and the remark that Armenia will not make it into the finals. You may...
View ArticleStudents developing Free Software for the public sector
I found an interesting news entry on osor.eu: “DK: Students to develop open source software for the Danish public sector” I think this is really great. Students get involved in Free Software...
View ArticleEuro 2012 in Free Software – qualification results Sep 2, 2011
Another day in our EURO 2012 in Free Software and open standards. I won’t comment on the matches today, there will be more tomorrow. I missed one match in August, but I couldn’t get to it. It ended 0:0...
View ArticleEuro2012 in Free Software – Qualification results Sep 3, 2011
Only one match today in our EURO 2012 in Free Software and open standards: Scotland vs. Czech Republic 0:1 Nothing fancy to report here. I’ll sum the three days in September after the 6th.
View ArticleEuro2012 in Free Software – qualification results Sep 6
Quite a few matches in our EURO 2012 in Free Software and open standards again. Very interesting encounters among them. I marked them bold in the table below. I’d love to comment on all of them, but I...
View ArticleEuro2012 in Free Software – qualification results Oct 7, 2011
Another day in our EURO 2012 in Free Software and open standards. Once again, I have no time to elaborate the results in detail and have to spit the plain table of todays results on this blog without...
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EURO2012 in Free Software – regular qualification is over!
Today was the last day of the regular qualification in our EURO2012 in Free Software and open standards.. Quite some interesting games like Germany vs. Belgium, Sweden vs. Netherlands or Denmark vs....
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Seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education
Cleaning up my notes folder, I found an article about the seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education: 1. encourages contact between students and faculty, 2. develops reciprocity and...
View ArticleEuro2012 play-offs
This post was meant to be published in November, but somehow it didn’t. Anyway, here are the results of the playoffs in our Euro2012 in Free Software. In the last Euro2012 posting, I was thinking about...
View ArticleSkolelinux pilot in Rhineland Palatinate – Lessons learned
Last FrOSCon, Kurt Gramlich, leader of the German part of the Skolelinux project, gave a brief overview on the Skolelinux pilot in Rhineland Palatinate. What happened after the first euphoria and...
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Free Software in Education NEWS – January 2013
Hello everybody! It’s been a while since I wrote my last post with edu news. So, I am planning to post news more regularly again. I start trying on a monthly basis. Here’s what I collected in January:...
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I love !Free Software 2013: Roland Olbricht and the #Overpass API for !OSM...
For the fourth time now, the FSFE is celebrating the Valentines Day for Free Software. So it is slowly becoming a tradition This year, my Valentine’s “Thank You” goes to Roland Olbricht, creator and...
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Free Software in Education NEWS – February 2013
Time for edu news again. Here’s what I collected in February: Community CC licenced FS promo material at the FLOSS Competence Center Network, they started to provide some creative commons licensed...
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Free Software in Education NEWS – March 2013
Another month past since the last edu news entry. Here’s what I found in March: Belgium E-learning tools gradually make their way into Francophone Belgium schools Finland There was a webinar about the...
View ArticleTowards Knowledge Societies – First WSIS+10 Review Event in Paris
End of February, a UNESO conference (WSIS+10) took place which in parts dealt with Free Software in education. The final report has been published for a while and just recently, I found the time to go...
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Free Software in Education news – April/May/June 2013
Here are three months of education news related to Free Software! Sorry for the delay, I was somewhat tied up with FuxCon and was traveling for a month. Enough said, here we go: Finland Finnish...
View ArticleLooking for an XMPP webclient
I’ve been looking for a web based XMPP client and found about 20 in the list on xmpp.org. I skimmed through them and as a Free Software license is mandatory for me, I was left with 7 clients. I haven’t...
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Free Software experience in Westcliff High School, England
I just want to recommend reading a blog post I found on KDE: A school in the southeast of England, began switching its student-facing computers to GNU/Linux. Stuart Jarvis interviewed the school’s...
View ArticleFree Software in Education news – July 2013
FSFE Edu-Team activities Sebastian warns in a blog post to put the cost argument in front My last edu news summary was well received on the edu-eu mailinglist and let to the idea of creating an edu...
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Free Software, journalism and democracy
The article is quite old, but t’s nice to see that more and more professors discover the value(s) of Free Software. Dr. Andrea Hickerson (Rochester Institute of Technology): “The values that underlie...
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