Re: [edu-eu] RFC - FSFE activity "education"

[Guido Arnold]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:09:12AM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
>
> There is nothing against diversity but I would hope a central point would 
> make it easier to see "who is out there" and "where do we dulicate work".

Yes, that's true.

>>>> But the projects should be listed somewhere. 
>>> There exists something for that
>>> <http://www.ofset.org>
>>> (Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching).
>>
>> I haven't visited ofset.org for a while. I always thought that their
>> aim is more the development of free edu software, not so much its
>> advocacy. I'll have a look again.
>
> Yes thats the primary goal and the reality. But the following text from 
> their community wiki shows that there is a thinking on more:
> "The success of free software in education can be achieved by an open and 
> frank collaboration between teachers, software developers, translators 
> and authors. Therefore we are proposing this portal as a central point 
> where exchanges can take place in any suited forms."
>
Sounds good. I just tried to create an account on their wiki, but that
functionality seems to be turned off. 

> Yes. Schoolforge (which you will know) is another candidate. We should 
> collect existing sites first. I have to search my fellow data to enter 
> the wiki ;-)

All right, let's start at the fsfe wiki for the time being until we
find a suitable solution that will allow non-fellows to contribute as
well.

Greetings,

Guido

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