See also: Reasons for schools to use Free Software.
This page is intended to collect all informations in regards to Free Software in education. Yes: yet another link collection (YALC!) But what I found so far was either not complete or fairly outdated. --guido
General Information
Contents
- European Countries
- Albania
- Andorra
- Austria
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Kazakhstan
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia
- Malta
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- San Marino
- Serbia (including Kosovo)
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Other countries
- Australia
- Brasil
- Canada
- Canary Islands
- Japan
- Venezuela
- Other
European Countries
Albania
Projects
Andorra
Austria
Articles
2005-02-12: http://www2.linux-kommunale.de/index.php?article_id=635
2008-01-21: Open Source Day in Burgenland
2008-05-28: Education Ministry plans increase of Open Source in schools
2009-05-15: Education ministry no longer funds proprietary office licenses
2009-06-04: Education ministry supports GNU/Linux distribution for schools
2009-06-26: Vienna to teach its public servants about "open source" desktop
Schools
http://www.gobbz.org/?q=node/view/19 (2010-05-21: misconfigured webserver, delete link if problem persists!)
Case studies
2005-10-05: Study proves Free Software is suitable for schools (German: Studie belegt: Freie Software für Schulen sehr geeignet)
2009-09-25: OSOR: Desktop4education: Bringing new environments to Austrian schools
Organisations / Groups
Supporter
Belarus
Belgium
Articles
Companies for Migration, Support, Training
http://fusesource.com/ (subdivision of Iona)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Case studies
Bulgaria
Articles
Projects
Croatia
Policies
2006-07-xx: (pdf) Policy that prescribes that students be equally presented FOSS and proprietary technologies and solutions. Source: http://r0.unctad.org/ecommerce/ecommerce_en/freeopen_encount.htm
Cyprus
Organisations
Case studies
Troulloi Primary School (PDF, page 11)
Czech Republic
Denmark
Articles
2008-12-19: Tønder elementary school to use open source
2009-09-30: Lyngby-Taarbæk moves schools to OpenOffice
Estonia
Finland
Case studies
2008-05-28: Three schools migrating to Open Source
Projects
FLOSSE Posse EDU blog about Free and Open Source Software ind Education
France
Articles
2007-02-05: 175.000 USB sticks with Free Software for French students
2008-05-27: Paris region students to get Open Source mobile office on USB key
2008-05-28: Award for Rennes' Open Source teacher-parent project
2009-10-05: Paris region to launch open source workflow portal for schools
Germany
Articles
2008-08-27: Skolelinux Youngstermeeting in Andernach (German)
2009-03-16: Skolelinux for Germany's Rhineland-Palatinate Schools
2009-06-25: Berlin art colleges switch to GNU/Linux
2009-09-30: Münster started OpenOffice pilot in schools
Organisations
Essen: OSS e.V.
Berlin: Group in Berlin
Hamburg: exis-unlimited.org
Edu Fairs
http://www.learntec.de/ Next: Feb 2 - Feb 4, 2010 Karlsruhe
http://www.didacta-koeln.de/ Next: Mar 16 - Mar 20, 2010 Cologne
Governmental Links
Baden Württemberg
http://www.support-netz.de/kundenportal/dokumentationen/linux.html
http://lehrerfortbildung-bw.de/netz/muster/linux/material/basis/paedml/
Companies that offer Support and training
Greece
Organisations
Hungary
Iceland
Articles
2009-08-12: Technical School changes to Ubuntu and saves Millions
2009-08-28: Free Software in the Icelandic Education System
Ireland
Articles
2009-02-11: Empey Backs ‘Open Source’ Software Drive
Italy
Articles
2007-02-20: FUSS Free Upgrade in SouthTyrol's Schools Project page
2008-05-28: Umbria to promote Open Source in schools
2008-07-17: Open Source Software Survey in Italian Schools
2008-12-18: City of San Giorgio begins migration
2009-06-26: Government to increase use of Free Software in schools
2009-08-06: IT: University of Verona moving to open source desktop
Case Studies
Initiatives
http://www.linuxdidattica.org/
Kazakhstan
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Articles
Supporters
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
Papers
Articles
Norway
Reports
2008-07-14 Experiences from the Use of Skolelinux: Use of OpenSource Software at Four Norwegian Schools
Organisations
Poland
Articles
2007-12-28: Free software in Polish schools
2008-08-05: Poland's Ministry of Education recommends Free Software
2009-07-14: Jaworzno moves schools to open source desktops
watchlist
OLPC for polish pupils? (polish)
Portugal
Articles
2008-05-28: Education ministry steps up promotion of Open Source software
2008-05-28: New association to increase Open Source use by schools
2009-06-22: University to offer open source software master
http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/documentacao/CMS_LinuxOnPortugueseSchools.pdf
Organisations
Romania
Articles
Russia
2007-09-20: Russia installing GNU/Linux in every school in the country (the software: armd.ru google translation to English)
2008-05-28: Russia to install GNU/Linux in every school
2008-10-27: osor.eu: Open Source installed in more than a thousands schools
2008-12-05: Education conference to present results of school GNU/Linux pilots
2009-04-12: Tartarstan announces migration of schools to free software
San Marino
Serbia (including Kosovo)
Projects
http://groups.google.com/group/free-software-conference (see this posting for further info)
Slovakia
Projects/Organisations
Articles
Slovenia
Spain
Articles
2002-04-19: Wired.com: Extremadura Measures: Linux
2002-04-21: barrapunto.com: spanish discussion about the wired atricle @Spanish speakers: is this helpful?
2006-09-06: desktoplinux.com: Richard Stallman on Kerela's desktop Linux adoption
2006-09-19: iosn.net: Inculcating ICT Usage in Educational, Social and Economic Activities - Extremadura, Spain
2008-05-28: Hundred schools in Catalonia to use GNU/Linux desktop, server
2009-04-30: Open source community protests national plan for school PCs
2009-09-22: Andalusia to distribute open source laptops to schools
2009-12-08: Cenatic campaign: ten reasons for using "open source" in education
Projects
http://www.linex.org/joomlaex/ Edu-Software Project used in Extremadura
Sweden
Switzerland
Articles
2008-04-06: 9000 PCs in Swiss schools going Linux only
2008-05-06: Geneva schools completely switch to Open Source (see also further links at bottom)
2009-09-08: Politicians demand more open source in education
2010-03-18: Swiss advisory board recommends Free Software instead of accepting MS offer (German) Original Link of educa.coop
Organisations
Companies for Migration, Support, Training
Turkey
Articles
2008-05-28: All primary school to teach use of Open Source
2008-06-17: Training for 600 teachers
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Articles
2006-05-00: report by futurelab: The potential of open source approaches for education (2006)
2006-08-29: sourcewire.com: Top public school claims Open Source software improves education
2008-05-28: Open source email system for Welsh schools
2008-05-28: Educational IT agency: 'Microsoft tax' unacceptable
2008-05-28: Schools warned off Microsoft software
2008-05-28: Schools IT agency files complaint with EC over Microsoft
2008-10-01: Open Source company in list of schools software suppliers
2009-01-26: BBC: Open source question for schools
2009-01-28: British Education Training and Technology conference (BETT)
2009-03-17: Ministry funds repository for open educational material
Organisations
Case Studies
2008-07-14: Software Migration at the Orwell High School
2008-11-06: School servers in Powys county, Wales
Other countries
Australia
Articles
2009-04-22: Materials from a Masters degree course on free software
2008-04-08: Ubuntu breathes new life into school's abandoned hardware
Brasil
Canada
Projects
Canary Islands
Japan
Venezuela
Other
2008-05-28 Schools increase use of Open Source
2008-11-23: Europe's schools remain shy about open source