[Fsfe-uk] Re: [Northwales] OSS in Welsh Schools

[Ian Lynch]

On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 21:16 +0100, Richard Smedley wrote:
> cc'd to Schoolforge UK - 
> see the messages titled [Northwales] OSS in Schools 
> on http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/northwales/2006-October/thread.html
> for background
> 
> Also returning thread to FSFE-UK, as Phil needs to get his presentation 
> in soon - usual apologies to anyone caught in the cross-posting crossfire =^)
> 
> On Saturday 28 October 2006 16:58, Phil Thane wrote:
> > In the spirit of Open-ness and co-operation, I've posted a draft of the
> > presentation I'm going to put to the WAG Schools IT Strategy Group. Please
> > feel free to rip it to shreds - providing you make helpful suggestions.
> 
> Hello Phil,

A point worth making is the potential of Open Source communities to
promote learning through participation. Community is a key government
policy with citizenship and inclusion important government areas for
development. Communities associated with Free software provide learning
opportunities in social enterprise and citizenship including peer review
and the stuff that has made science and technology the most significant
human achievement in the last two centuries. These are educational
benefits that are difficult to measure but of far greater value than any
savings in software licenses which is the usual mechanistic measure. So
its a win win. You save a lot on licenses and gain a lot in educational
terms. 

Ian
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