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Tux USB Keys Can Make Your Donated Computers Greener, Cleaner, More Ethical,
and More Educational
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| So volunteers and computer donars, please bring this article to the attention
| of a charity you know of. Charity workers, please contact your local LUG
| people (Linux User Group) for technical help. The technological solutions
| these LUG (or FLOSS) people offer may not be exactly the same as what I
| propose here. (Google for mk-boot-usb for technical details of my proposal.)
| For example, Sugar on a Stick, a technology related to the MIT's charity
| project OLPC, is also a bootable usb key. Its emphasis is more on the logic,
| programming, and social network aspects of education, but I was told that
| interesting geometry learning tools such as Dr. Geo may also be included.
| Some may offer FreeBSD or Open Solaris as equally powerful alternatives to
| GNU/Linux on a usb key. Yet others may propose DRBL or LTSP for different
| technical considerations. The latter two technologies are equally ethical and
| educational choices as they are also FLOSS, although arguablly they may have
| less powerful social impacts in the long run.
|
| Charity is a spiritual endeavor that not only empowers the helped, but also
| inspires and elevates the helpers and the spectators like me. When it comes
| to the choice of computer software for donation, it requires a conscious and
| moral consideration of the chosen technology's ethical and philosophical
| foundation as well as its long term social consequences. Many of us in the
| FLOSS community look forward to contributing to your great cause if you make
| the right choice.
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http://blog.ofset.org/ckhung/index.php?post/098a
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http://xkcd.com/619/
Recent:
Free Software in Education
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| The notion of Free Software is definitely political. Iâm not stating the
| obvious, that any human work that affects a community in any way is
| political. Neither I suggest that the ideological (as opposed to purely
| technical) reasons of many Free Software supporters (and its critics)
| automatically brand it as a political issue. They alone might as well
| characterize it as philosophical, artistic or simply iconic. Free Software is
| political because it is strongly tied with a deep political question: that of
| education, and access to it.
|
| [...]
|
| You can read two great articles that support this: Richard Stallmanâs Why
| schools should exclusively use free software and Jean Peyratoutâs Why give
| precedence to Free Software at Schools. To summarize them, Free Softwares
| helps students assimilate and generate knowledge, instead of simply acquire
| technical skills; it offers education, instead of training. It helps build
| communities, and promotes (actually depends on) discussion, cooperation,
| initiative and active participation to the development process. In an
| increasingly expanding digital world, it embodies the ideals of education.
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http://xpapad.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/free-software-in-education/
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