Hi everyone, We are now only a couple of weeks away from the launch of HLUG's Open Source Schools Project and it has been very interesting helping to set the whole thing up. The project is launching at our Software Freedom Day Event in Hereford and we have a lecturer from one of the local colleges speaking on open source in education and the importance of ensuring that students understand the fundamentals of computing - if you are anywhere near on the 17th Sept do come and support the event - details can be found at http://www.herefordshire.lug.org.uk/node/89
We are working on the project which is running during the autumn term with support from Hereford Councils education department and have had meetings with the engineers responsible for the networks at the schools we will be visiting to ensure that they are happy with our plans - we have been very pleased at the amount of interest and support there has been so far and our first in-school visit is on sept 19 following SFD. Ubuntu is the main OS that we will be demonstrating at our SFD event and also the one most likely to be suggested to schools we visit alongside our Tuxedu OS which has been designed (initially using lubuntu as a base) specifically for the project. We are not intending to convert schools wholesale to using open source but to start movement in that direction, helping them to increase their use and confidence in Open Source Programs and give them an experience of using a linux based OS. By giving teachers the information and the tools in an easily usable form which will not dramatically increase their workload we hope to encourage teachers, students and hopefully parents use of open source software. It's an ongoing project and I hope some of the people on this list will be encouraged to take it into schools in their area - as materials are finalised we will be sharing them online. cheers Sarah
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