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“They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect
sometime in the next decade.”
--Bill Gates
Culver announces Microsoft training deal
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| Gov. Chet Culver and officials from Microsoft Corp. have reached an agreement
| calling for the company to provide more than 5,000 vouchers to help Iowa
| workers upgrade their technology skills.
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http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090715/BUSINESS/90715021/-1/LIFE04
Training for Linux?
Iowa governor announces Microsoft training deal
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| The Redmond, Wash.-based company will provide 5,700 vouchers to Iowa
| Workforce Development as part of a national effort to provide free or
| low-cost training to up to 2 million people during the next three years.
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http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D99F4C1G0.htm
Great. Training for Linux?
Microsoft Commits $50 Million in Higher Education Resources, Training and
Certifications to Drive Economic Recovery
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| In an effort to help higher education institutions support economic stimulus
| efforts and work-force development strategies, Microsoft Corp. has committed
| up to $50 million in higher education resources, training and certifications
| through the Microsoft Education Alliance Program agreement. As part of the
| agreement, the company will provide resources and tools for short-term
| work-force training and higher education enhancements.
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http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-software/20090709/SF4399909072009-1.html
Wow. $50 million is a lot of money. For Linux?
UNESCO and Microsoft Announce Higher Education ICT Task Force for Long-Term
Skills and Sustainable Development
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| The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
| and Microsoft Corp. today announced a joint task force to help higher
| education institutions worldwide meet the growing challenge of supporting
| economic stimulus efforts and work-force development strategies.
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http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20090706/SF4197606072009-1.html
Bill Gates and the UN had a little meeting last year. About Linux?
Recent:
Linux in Education: Concepts Not Applications
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| At the grade school level though, we need to teach children not only how to
| use technology, but how to learn to use technology too. If we can offer
| students the use of Windows, Linux, and Macintosh, and be versed in Web 2.0,
| handheld computing, and application concepts -- we prepare them to succeed.
| Isn't that what we ultimately want for kids? For them to succeed in whatever
| they do?
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| Linux is the PERFECT tool for education. It plays well with other operating
| systems, and offers such a wide variety of applications, that it's silly not
| to expose children to its usage. Oh, and there's also that little thing
| called cost. For many schools, that alone can seal the deal. Linux offers
| more, costs less, and can even fit well with existing tools.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-education-concepts-not-applications
FR: Education Ministry encourages Open Source use
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| The department at the French Ministry of Education that is handling
| purchasing of software and software licenses is increasing its Open Source
| offerings to some 1.5 million teachers and education workers in 250
| institutes France.
|
| [...]
|
| The discount agreement with Mandriva is valid for the next four years. How
| many of France's postgraduate schools and universities today use GNU/Linux
| distribution Mandriva is not recorded, said Verez.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7663/469
Related:
Russian schools abandon Windows after piracy scare
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| Microsoft says that the incident has nothing to do with them, but it
| appears that Russian schools in the area are so scared about being shipped
| off to a Siberian Gulag, that they are buying Linux gear instead.
|
| [..]
|
| According to Karpushin, schools would start using freely distributed
| software like the Linux OS, Russky office and Open office desktop apps,
| Ekho Moskvi reports.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37460
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