[SFD-discuss] Was: FLOSS educational programmes

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 08:09 +1100, Pia Waugh wrote:
> Hi Judy,
> 
> <quote who="Judy Okite">
> 
> > Hi all,This is a great idea and I would love to see it take shape!What
> > is at stake is to agree on courseware &examining body.Thx
> 
> It doesn't need to be any _one_ courseware examining body. I think if we
> encouraged training and certs in general and perhaps create a list of
> appropriate ones and leave it up to the very capable individual teams to
> decide what is best for them. A short list of the top of my head:
> 
> General computer use training:
> - INGOTS
> 
> Technical training:
> - LPI (Linux Professional Institute - vendor neutral)
> - RHCE (Red Hat)
> - NCLE (Suse training)
> 
> What else?

Here in the UK, the ingots are being actively used by some members of
the Open-Source Consortium (http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/) and we
have spoken about possibly developing an "access" course (think of it as
LPI 0.5) to help people get into open-source.

I am a keen believer in teaching a skills set, not an application, and
it is with this in mind that we are gearing ourselves to team up with
organisations around the world that share our beliefs about FLOSS to
further the adoption of FLOSS in schools.

I've just written a blog post about the fact that the Gov. IT advisor
for schools has just released a report saying that vista and office 2007
are not fit for purpose (it's at http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/) and
that open-source should be considered as an alternative where
appropriate.

Is there a way in which the OSC and SFD could help each other out on
this one?

M.
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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk

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