[seul-edu] Fw: Information about government support for open source & education

[Douglas Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

I just received this from Bjarni.  Let's help him here! 
Alejandro, could you answer the question about Red Escolar? 
Tomas or Georges (or anyone else who knows), could you deal with
the French question?  Does anyone have any info on the German
legislation?  Gunnar, perhaps you could collaborate with Bjarni
to the benefit of both of you.  I'm sure other information of
the same sort would be happily received.  Oh, and Bjarni, you
ought to subscribe to the seul-edu mailing list!

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:

> From: "Bjarni R. Einarsson" <bre@klaki.net>
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Information about government support for open source
> & education

> Hello all,
> 
> I've been searching the web for links to more concrete
> information on
> some of the bigger open-source related educational projects
> and
> government policies.  I'm not having much luck.
> 
> The reason I'm looking, is that I'll be giving a short talk
> about
> open source and education at a Linux convention here in
> Iceland next
> Thursday. The Icelandic minister of education may be among the
> guests. :)
> 
> I'll be presenting more or less the standard arguement for
> open
> source in small countries (cheap, local work vs. foreign
> licensing
> fees, independance w.r.t. localization etc.), with emphasis on
> education since that is one of the best place to start
> building up
> knowledge and independance like this.  I hope to be able to
> provide
> references to things that have been done abroad to prove that
> someone
> "important" actually agrees with me.
> 
> The things I'm aware of, but sorely lack information about
> are:
> 
>   - Mexico's ScholarNet project.  Is this still alive?  If so,
> has it
>     been doing well?
> 
>   - France's agreement with the French LUG.
> 
>   - Someone mentioend a pro-Linux German legislation (proposed
> or
>     otherwise - I'm completely in the dark on this one).
> 
> Any links would be most appreciated, and please don't be
> afraid to
> tell me about stuff I haven't mentioend here. :) English is
> preferred, but I can get help translating German or French if
> necessary.
> 
> Also, I hope I'm not rude to request that any responses be
> sent to me
> directly - I'm not subscribed to this list and reloading the
> archives
> isn't very efficient.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
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