Conference by Richard M. Stallman at the First International Conference Free Knowledge, Free Technology - Education for a free information society in Barcelona (Spain), 15 July 2008, on the production and sharing of free educational and training materials about Free Software.
Stephen Downes, Institute for Information Technology’s Internet Logic Research GroupThe Future of Education
The Public in Public Education
Public education, education for everyone, is an important concept not for the “education” part, but for the “public” part, as its impact goes far beyond the acquisition of knowledge, but the shaping of the whole society.
Stephen Downes presents gRSShopper. Besides the most evident uses of the tool as a resource harvester, the main purpose being...
Conference by Richard M. Stallman at the First International Conference Free Knowledge, Free Technology - Education for a free information society in Barcelona (Spain), 15 July 2008, on the production and sharing of free educational and training materials about Free Software.
Richard M. Stallman, president of the Free Software FoundationFree Software and Beyond
Free Software is about giving freedom to the user and respecting the work done by the community of programmers.
The analogy with cooking recipes is clearly the best way to help people understand the four freedoms of Free Software.
Electronic book readers are evil
The key to promote Free Software is not software in itself, the possibility to be able to “cook”, but: as long as software is needed to do more and more things...
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Cyberlaw, governance, rights,
free software,
fsf,
richard stallman,
rms,
meetings,
Open Access,
FLOSS,
Education & e-Learning,
stephen downes