[A2k] EU: SELF project issues call for Free Software materials

[Manon Ress]

http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/5833/469

EU: SELF project issues call for Free Software materials
Open Source News =96 15 September 2006 =96 EU and Europe-wide =96
Evaluations, Pilots and Studies

SELF, an EU-funded international project aimed at creating a global
platform for the collaborative sharing and creation of educational
and training materials for Free software and Open standards, is
calling for the submission of relevant materials.
SELF (Science Education and Learning in Freedom), is an international
project that aims to provide a global platform for the collaborative
sharing and creation of educational and training materials relating
to Free and Open Source Software and Open standards. It is designed
both to provide information and access to relevant training materials
and to offer a platform for the evaluation, adaptation, creation and
translation of these materials. The production process will be based
on the organisational model of Wikipedia, with collaborative input
from many partners.
The SELF platform was initiated by an international consortium of
seven partners - three universities: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
(Spain), University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Homi Bhabha Centre for
Science Education (India); and four non-profit organisations active
as open source advocates: the Internet Society (Netherlands), Free
Software Foundation Europe (in all European countries), the Internet
Society (Bulgaria) and Fundaci=F3n Via Libre (Argentina).
It aims to create a community of all parties interested in education
and training in relation to Free Software and Open standards. As such
it especially welcomes universities, schools, training centres, Free
Software communities, software companies, publishers and government
bodies. All users are encouraged to participate in both the
production process and the exploitation of results.

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Manon Anne Ress
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www.cptech.org

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