Re: Idea

[Lord Alistair Davidson, part time deity]

[note: this was originally on the education mailing list. I have added
the web mailing list because I think they may be interested]

Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There is such  a catalog at OFSET - which is an associate organization of the 
> FSFE -
> The URL is http://www.ofset.org/freeduc. The other aspect of the catalog is 
> to help
> to produce .deb packages when there are not availaible. So as we promote the 
> use of
> free software for education we promote aswell the use of the Debian 
> distribution in
> education.
> Also in the catalog only free software are referenced of course and we have a 
> free
> cerificatation scheme to add new entries in the catalog.
> 
> Of course cooperation is welcome.
> 
> Hilaire

Oh, that's wonderful! :)

In that case, maybe fsfeurope.org should mirror that list, or at the
very least have a prominent link directly to it. I don't have the time
to check right now- do we have an education section on the fsfeurope web
pages? If so, we should have a link/mirror there. If not, then we should
create an education section I think.

> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 22:44:48 +0100
> "Lord Alistair Davidson, part time deity" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > It occurs to me that it would be a good idea to put together a list of
> > software libre programs that can be used in an educational context, a
> > put that list on the fsfe webpage. That would make it easy to
> > demonstrate to teachers and school boards that it is possible to teach
> > using libre software and nothing else.


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