This page is intended to collect all information in regards to Free Software in education. Yes: yet another link collection (YALC)! The edu-team will monitor the changes and use the info as applicable. Thank you very much for your contribution!

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General Information

• https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/education/eduteam

• http://www.gnu.org/education/

• Usage of Skolelinux

• Education Case Studies on Schoolforge.net

• Microsoft admits that TCO for developing nation's schools is same for Linux and Windows

• Usage of OpenOffice in Schools and Universities

• Aperero

European Countries

Albania

Projects

• 2006-01-01 UNDP: Free / Open Source Software (FOSS) Initiatives in the Government and Education Sector in Albania

Andorra

• Universitat d'Andorra uses Ubuntu next to Windows XP and Joomla for their webpage

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

• 2010-07-25: Increasing number of schools turn to open source

• 2011-07-07: Burgenland region - Successful migration at local primary school

• 2011-09-30: Education ministry funds open source eLearning competence centre

Schools

• http://www.bg-kremszeile.ac.at/homepagenew/index.php

• 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

• "Linux in der Schule

Supporter

• http://www.machdichfrei.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=21

Belarus

Belgium

Articles

• 2007-12-00: checkpoint/elearning.com: Iona Technologies Connects Belgian Schools

Companies for Migration, Support, Training

• http://fusesource.com/ (subdivision of Iona)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Case studies

• Dicstance elearning solution for government

Bulgaria

Articles

• 2006-03-31: Bulgaria started initiative to train children from the orphanages in the region of the municipality of Vratza to work with OpenOffice.org suite, Mozilla Firefox Browser and GIMP

Projects

• http://foss.bg/

Croatia

Articles

• 2013-12-19: Software workshops attract Croatian students

List of Free Software associations involved in edu

See Croatia for full list of FS associations

• SOK (Split) See also Joinup article Software workshops attract Croatian students

• Croatian Linux Group

• HrOpen

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 - the former two links seem to be outdated, but I could find this study that mentiones the policy: http://csis.org/files/publication/100416_Open_Source_Policies.pdf

Cyprus

Case studies

• Troulloi Primary School (PDF, page 11)

Czech Republic

• 2012-07-20: FS default choice for some Czech schools

Denmark

Articles

• 2008-12-19: Tønder elementary school to use open source

• 2009-09-30: Lyngby-Taarbæk moves schools to OpenOffice

• 2011-07-01: Students to develop open source software for the Danish public sector

Estonia

Finland

Articles

• 2010-05-13: Over a hundred schools using open source

• 2010-07-28 : State of Free software in Finnish schools

• 2010-09-17: Re-use of hardware and open source helps schools save costs

• 2011-02-00: Education evolves at a dream of a school

Case studies

• 2008-05-28: Three schools migrating to Open Source

• 2012-10-28: Study: open source provides schools with low-cost, high quality software

Projects

• FLOSSE Posse EDU blog about Free and Open Source Software ind Education

• Dream school

• EduCOSS

Companies providing support, training administration

• http://www.opinsys.fi/en/

• http://www.mediamaisteri.com/

• http://www.dicole.com/

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

• 2011-06-07: Open source-based digital working spaces for French primary schools

• 2011-07-28 Awards for innovative uses of school software

• 2011-08-31: Free Software laptops for 32,000 students Languedoc-Roussillon

• 2012-01-10: University of Nice publishes e-Learning system under GPL

• 2016-04-21: Yvelines school completes switch to free software

Projects

• FramaDVD ecole

Germany

Moved content to Education/FS_usage_Link_collection/Germany

Greece

• 2011-02-01: free Linux system for teachers and pupils at elementary schools

• 2012-11-18: Greek school network increasingly turning to FS

Organisations

• Apoplous

• ELLAK

Hungary

• 2012-01-04: Ministry of education decided not to renew proprietary office licence deal and wants to use FS instead (scroll down to second paragraph)

Iceland

Articles

• 2009-08-12: Technical School changes to Ubuntu and saves Millions

• 2009-08-28: Free Software in the Icelandic Education System

• 2009-10-27: OSOR: One in four secondary schools to join open source project

• 2012-03-21: All of Iceland's public administrations moving towards FS

Ireland

Articles

• 2009-02-11: Empey Backs ‘Open Source’ Software Drive

Israel

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

• 2010-04-02: Sabazialug organized a successful basic GNU/Linux Course for elementary schools in march 2010

• 2011-05-31: Sabazialug promoted again Open Source Software in schools with the 2011 edition of its basic training GNU/Linux Course for elementary schools

• 2016-01-28: South Tyrol open source school project to spur teachers

Case Studies

• 2008-07-14: Upgrade to Freedom - Schools in South Tyrol have their own GNU/Linux distribution

In Piedmont, there is a regional law 9/2009 about using free software and there is a specific amount of money dedicated to the educational sector. At the moment there are two actions running, as far as we know:

• a European tender for developing online courses about educational Free Software for schools (Italian) based on a catalogue of educational FS (Italian). The courses will be available online for every one.

• A grant of 50.000 € for three classrooms from different school degree (primary and secondary) in the same campus using mobile netbook with FS. The three classes received their notebooks on nov 8th, 2012

Initiatives

• http://www.linuxdidattica.org/

• http://www.dossierscuola.it/PaginaIniziale

• http://www.befair.it/

• Pro FUSS

Conferences and Events

http://www.didatticaaperta.it/

Kazakhstan

Latvia

• 2009-12-04: Ministry of Education approves open source software for schools

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

• Intervention ar RMLL on challenge of Free software in education in Luxemburger project

Macedonia

Articles

• 2007-09-25: Macedonia to supply all schools with GNU/Linux desktops

Supporters

• http://slobodensoftver.org.mk/about_free_software_macedonia

Malta

Moldova

Monaco

Montenegro

• UNESCO project for Free Software in schools, however still unfounded

Netherlands

Papers

• 2007-03-29: Paper: Exposing High-School Students to Open Source Development with CodeYard

Articles

• 2009-10-01: NOIV article (in dutch) about increasing importance of Free Software in Education

Projects/Groups

• http://strict.nu/

Norway

Reports

• 2006-04-12: skolelinux.no: Report by Knut Yrwin about a Research funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research

• 2008-07-14 Experiences from the Use of Skolelinux: Use of OpenSource Software at Four Norwegian Schools

Organisations

• http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/

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

• 2011-10-12: Classes on FLOSS and its employment introduced to schools

• 2014-03-20: Schools across Poland are being approached to use Free Software to introduce students to ICT and software development

watchlist

• OLPC for polish pupils? (polish)

Portugal

Articles

• 2007-08-14 : ministry of education distributes Free CDs

• 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

• 2010-07-14: Nearly all school children getting familiar with open source

• http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/documentacao/CMS_LinuxOnPortugueseSchools.pdf

Organisations

• Free Software portal of the ministry of Education (pt)

• Associação Ensino Livre (Association for Free Education)

Romania

Articles

• 2009-06-04: Universities start embracing open source software

• 2010-09-14: new IT strategy to adopt Free Software

• 2011-09-29: Romanian and Moldovan schools and universities eager to use FS

• 2012-11-21: Open source group at Bucharest polytechnic university reach out to school students

== Advocacy Groups ===

• http://www.rosedu.org/

Russia

Articles

• 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

• 2008-10-30: Russian Schools To Use Free Software

• 2008-12-05: Education conference to present results of school GNU/Linux pilots|

• 2009-04-12: Tartarstan announces migration of schools to free software

• 2009-09-04 Teacher learn GNU/Linux (German]

• 2009-11-15: Free Software for All Russian Schools in Jeopardy bad news

• 2010-10-28: Free Software instead of windows - Russia wants to be free (German)

• 2010-12-29: Russia prepares migration (German)

• 2011-01-24: New version of Alt-Linux released (German)

San Marino

Serbia (including Kosovo)

Projects

• http://groups.google.com/group/free-software-conference (see this posting for further info)

Slovakia

Projects/Organisations

• Sospreskoly

• Openacademy

• Multimedia reading book

Articles

• OSOR: How a potato guy wins the heart of children

• Utilizing an Education Game PenguinQuart to Develop a Speech Recognition of Slovak Digits

Slovenia

Spain

Articles

• 2002-04-19: Wired.com: Extremadura Measures: Linux

• 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

  • Case study of Ubuntu on the same topic

• 2009-12-08: Cenatic campaign: ten reasons for using "open source" in education

• 2010-03-09: Hackathon: lecciones aprendidas Universidad de Granada

• 2011-02-11: LliureX 10.09 offers free educational material

• 2014-04-07: Interview to Fernando Lanero, who migrated his school to Ubuntu

• 2015-05-12 above article one year later: The migration to Ubuntu, "a resounding success"

• 2015-08-04: New Extremadura Govt to support FS in schools

• 2015-08-11 related article in Spanish: http://www.edulibre.info/extremadura-mantiene-y-refuerza-su

Projects

• http://www.linex.org/joomlaex/ Edu-Software Project used in Extremadura

• http://www.educarex.es/

• Centro Nacional de Desarrollo Curricular en Sistemas no Propietarios

Case Studies

• Andalusia deploys 220,000 Ubuntu desktops in schools throughout the region

Sweden

• 2007-06-00: The Swedish municipality Eksjö is also using free software in schools. This article mentions both Motala and Eksjö

• 2008-06-26: The Swedish municipality Motala uses free software in schools and administration. There are several articles about it in swedish. Here is one example.

• 2012-03-19: Schools in Sollefteå lead Swedish municipality's move to FS

Switzerland

Articles

• 2018-07-18: Alternative to Whatsapp at Swiss schools

• 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

• 2011-03: extracts relevant to Free Software and Open STndards in public sector and education (MITIC, fr)

• 2011-04-19: New structural plan of the Geneva Canton promoting free software in education

• 2011-05-31: Parliamentarian: Schools should use open source to inspire students

• 2014-07-20: Geneva class-rooms switching to free software

Organisations

• http://www.lernenwiedieprofis.ch (by FSFE Localgroup Zurich)

• http://www.ossanschulen.ch/

  • http://www.ch-open.ch/

  • http://www.svia-ssie.ch/

Companies for Migration, Support, Training

• http://www.4teamwork.ch/de/open-source

• http://www.puzzle.ch/

• http://www.giammi.com

Turkey

Articles

• 2007-11-13: All primary school to teach use of Open Source

• 2008-06-12: Training for 600 teachers

• 2011-10-10: Pardus to be installed on more than 600.000 interactive boards Blog post summary in German

• 2011-10-28: School IT infrastructure project could use mostly FS

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Articles

• 2006-05-00: report by futurelab: The potential of open source approaches for education (2006)

• 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

• 2009-07-24: Local business and Education provider work together to bring FS to the classroom

• 2011-04-30: 'Open source on the rise in UK schools'

Organisations

• http://opensourceschools.org.uk/

• freedomdreams.co.uk

• schoolforge.org.uk

• DFEY (Digital Freedom in Education and Youth)

England

• 2006-08-29: sourcewire.com: Top public school claims Open Source software improves education

• University of Sheffield's Free Software Society

• 2008-07-14: Software Migration at the Orwell High School

Wales

• 2008-11-06: School servers in Powys county, Wales

• 2008-05-28: Open source email system for Welsh schools

Scotland

Northern Ireland

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

• 2009-03-05: 26 thousands labs will switch to Free Software

• http://linuxeducacional.com/

Canada

Projects

• MILLE, Modèle d’Infrastructure de Logiciel Libre en Éducation

Canary Islands

• mEDUXa, Software Project

Japan

• 2008-05-28: Soon school kids in Japan and California will be using GNU/Linux and other Open Source software applications in class

Venezuela

• 2009-07-29: Venezuela to Provide Children with 50,000 Mini Laptops from Portugal with GNU/Linux

Other

• 2008-05-28 Schools increase use of Open Source

• 2008-11-23: Europe's schools remain shy about open source

Inactive groups and dead links

• OFSET

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