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[Edu-it] Promoting Free Software in schools
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Loic Dachary |
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[Edu-it] Promoting Free Software in schools |
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Fri, 24 May 2002 19:02:15 +0200 |
Hi,
I'd like to find out what was the impact of the Peruvian
Congressman letter regarding education & Free Software. I understand
you're very invovled in promoting Free Software in the education field
in Italy and figured you'd be the best person to ask. Would you mind
sharing your thoughts with me on this specific subject ? That may help
us in France to find better strategies.
Thanks in advance,
---- http://www.fsfeurope.org/documents/peru.en.txt
You then state that: "12. In the Forum, the use of open source
software in education was discussed, without mentioning the complete
collapse of this initiative in a country like Mexico, where precisely
the State employees who founded the project now state that open source
software did not make it possible to offer a learning experience to
pupils in the schools, did not take into account the capability at a
national level to give adequate support to the platform, and that the
software did not and does not allow for the levels of platform
integration that now exist in schools."
In fact Mexico has gone into reverse with the Red Escolar (Schools
Network) project. This is due precisely to the fact that the driving
forces behind the Mexican project used license costs as their main
argument, instead of the other reasons specified in our project, which
are far more essential. Because of this conceptual mistake, and as a
result of the lack of effective support from the SEP (Secretary of
State for Public Education), the assumption was made that to implant
free software in schools it would be enough to drop their software
budget and send them a CD ROM with Gnu/Linux instead. Of course this
failed, and it couldn't have been otherwise, just as school
laboratories fail when they use proprietary software and have no
budget for implementation and maintenance. That's exactly why our bill
is not limited to making the use of free software mandatory, but
recognizes the need to create a viable migration plan, in which the
State undertakes the technical transition in an orderly way in order
to then enjoy the advantages of free software.
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