ReciclaRed finished last December. During a whole year 20 students have been working hard to install and configure 14 computer labs in some public schools placed in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Canary Islands, Spain, as part of a project financed with EU funds through the Canary Islands Employment Department of the Regional Government.This project … Continue reading ReciclaRed, a software libre edu project in the Canary Islands
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We have linux on schools, so now what?
Teachers usually prepare their classes at home, so they need the same software there that it is installed at the school they work in, with the same version of any app. As they do with books, teachers need to make agreements on the software they install in computer labs. This is not just a pedagogical, … Continue reading We have linux on schools, so now what?
wiki, kile, kontact, RT…and voila!
Wikis, kontact, RT and kile are four of the basic tools I use everyday. Some of the guys I work with have been worried for a long time about integration of tools in one interface so they can work with them in a wiki way.When I first heard about this I didn't think it was … Continue reading wiki, kile, kontact, RT…and voila!
Are we trying to beat one monopoly by supporting another one?
Lately news about the support Mozilla is receiving from Google has made me think...Firefox is a great tool, specially is you use Windows. With Linux or Mac/OS you have more good choices.I promote firefox everywhere I go, specially in courses where I teach. Most of the computer labs I teach in have Windows XP, so … Continue reading Are we trying to beat one monopoly by supporting another one?
Desktops libres help to introduce other (libres) technologies.
In Gran Canaria's College (ULPGC) we are going to give a course about Ruby on Rails during the following days. The point is where are we going to do it. The computer lab has a nice structure based on one server with CENTOS4 + XEN + 4 virtual machines with Debian, and another server with … Continue reading Desktops libres help to introduce other (libres) technologies.
What a day for standard formats and free software…
Today 3 news has came along related with standars and free software that I hope it gives light to people in general and local politics here on the Canary Islands, Sapin, about what's going on:1.- German Foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, supports ODF.2.- Open Document format (ODF) yesterday became an official standard forSouth African government communications.3.- … Continue reading What a day for standard formats and free software…
Why software libre and not free software
Reading Richard Dale's post about, among others, this issue, and after having a conversation about this with some of the people invited to II Jornadas de Software Libre conference, celebrated last week in Tenerife, I want to describe some arguments that make me say that we should stop talking about free software and begin to … Continue reading Why software libre and not free software
kdisser + latex beamer
Kdissert is an awesome app behind a simple idea. Giving talks and product presentations, you realice how hard is to make non linear presentations. When the complexity of an idea is high, sometimes you cannot express it linearly.Kdissert help you to simplify what you want to say. After you make clear your ideas, it generates … Continue reading kdisser + latex beamer
Neutrality vs Justice
A friend of mine has written a couple of good articles about Technological Neutrality, a term that is getting popular among some politics here in Spain (I assume it is also becoming popular worldwide). Check them out (they are in spanish. Click here and here). This concept makes me upset as well as Open Source. … Continue reading Neutrality vs Justice
KOffice in schools
Following disccussion taken place at Edu-day in aKademy 2007, here is a more precisely opinion than I expressed there:Right now a big fight is taking place in market between MS Office and OpenOffice. The appearance of the free software suite and ODF has brought a new interest to a sector long time dominated by the … Continue reading KOffice in schools
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