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FOSS Education Primer

by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2007-02-21 10:55 AM

This primer covers the use of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) from schools to universities

This primer covers the use of FOSS from schools to universities. It provides a brief overview of how it can help in setting up the IT infrastructure and administration of educational institutions and considers software (mainly proprietary) which is now used as the basis for IT curricula and alternative FOSS which is available.

The primer can be downloaded from the following links:

PDF Format (659KB)
PDF Format - UNESCO Brazilian Portuguese translation (1.8MB)

Wikibook version

The primer is intended to be a living document, constantly updated to reflect the latest information and available to all. It is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license and should always be available from the IOSN website.

case studies in the primer

Posted by Victor van Reijswoud at 2004-10-11 02:21 PM

Dear Authors,

First of all I like the primer a lot. It addresses a lot of items that are of interest to the people that like to change their ideas, but need the data.

However, case studies and best practices were missing. We can offer you one.

About two years ago Uganda Martyrs University (where I am on the staff) has decided to move to OSS completely (back end and desktop). Since then we have gained a lot of knowledge on migrating from MS to OSS.

At present we have migrated the complete back office and about 60% of the desktops (100% of the computers that are accessed by the students). Total computers on campus about 250 in a LAN.

If you are interested to get the story, pleasew get in contact with me.

Best regards,

Prof. Dr. Victor van Reijswoud
Uganda Martyrs University
victor@umu.ac.ug - +256 77 908490

Paper submitted to ACM SIGUCCS Fall 2004 Conference

Posted by Rommel Feria at 2004-11-07 05:37 PM

I submitted a paper to ACM SIGUCCS Fall 2004 Conference about the use of Open Source in providing ICT services to the patrons of the University of the Philippines. I will read the primer and see how it relates to us. :)

Cheers!

Prof. Rommel P. Feria
Director, University Computer Center
University of the Philippines - Diliman

Using FOSS withoutt affecting current setup

Posted by Gary Hughes at 2004-12-20 03:11 AM

There are a number of Linux run-from-CD distributions (like Knoppix, Gnoppix, Quantian etc) that schools and other organisations can try which will not affect their current setup. These could encourage more organisations to give FOSS a try.