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[News] Asian Free Software Event Targets Academics

  • Subject: [News] Asian Free Software Event Targets Academics
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:32:14 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Open Source Education: Professorsâ Open Source Camp in Singapore

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| Professors' Open Source Summer Experience (POSSE), 
| a training bootcamp targeted for faculty members of 
| technical universities in Asia is being organized 
| from November 9-13, 2009 at Nanyang Polytechnic in 
| Singapore. Faculty members from Singapore, 
| Malaysia, China, India are expected to participate.
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http://www.opensource.org/node/475


Recent:

OSS push in VT Schools and Local Gov

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| If we read this right it means there is real local government
| preference for Open Source. Now right now theyâre going into
| because of costs instead of control, but I think a taste of
| freedom tends to stick around once youâve deployed a FOSS
| solution and itâll be more difficult for Microsoft or even
| IBM, Novell etc to get back in without offering serious
| concessions.
|
| I also like that they are informing people that students can
| take advantage of OpenOffice, because itâs free too and
| supports all the same formats. Thatâs very good news as itâs
| an aspect of Free Software in schools which is often
| overlooked (that what is taught can be taken home without
| pressuring poor students to buy expensive software).
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http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/oss-push-in-vt-schools-and-local-gov/
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