Hi all,
in October I will give a talk about how Free Software can help to export wealth and knowledge to development country in order to empower them.
For this I'm looking for some good examples. In the past there was the "One Laptop per Child" initiative. But I don't know how active they are today, didn't heard a lot about it for a long time.
Then I remember a example where a small region wanted to have programs translated to their native (traditional) language but because it was a tiny market proprietary software vendors refused to provide translation so they started using GNU/Linux where they could add the translation by them self. I'm no longer sure about the region, I think it was somewhere in Spain. Does someone here remember/know it?
Do you have any other examples where Free Software was used in education or economy to grow a region/country?
Thanks! Björn
On ven, 2017-09-29 at 18:18 +0200, Bjoern Schiessle wrote:
Do you have any other examples where Free Software was used in education or economy to grow a region/country?
In education primarily: The Raspberry Pi is widely used to teach students (young and old) how to program. It's a tiny, cheap ARM board that runs GNU/Linux. There is also the "Pibook" (I think) project that provides cheap laptops that the recipient can assemble themselves.
Yours,
On 29.09.2017 18:18, Bjoern Schiessle wrote:
Hi all,
in October I will give a talk about how Free Software can help to export wealth and knowledge to development country in order to empower them.
For this I'm looking for some good examples. In the past there was the "One Laptop per Child" initiative. But I don't know how active they are today, didn't heard a lot about it for a long time.
Then I remember a example where a small region wanted to have programs translated to their native (traditional) language but because it was a tiny market proprietary software vendors refused to provide translation so they started using GNU/Linux where they could add the translation by them self. I'm no longer sure about the region, I think it was somewhere in Spain. Does someone here remember/know it?
Do you have any other examples where Free Software was used in education or economy to grow a region/country?
Thanks! Björn
I know that FreedomBox (https://freedombox.org) has been used to connect villages in India. Maybe ask on #freedombox about details.
Hi,
do you have heard about BRCK? It's a microserver with Linux based OS in Kenya and one of the first hardware startups in Africa:
Co-founder is Erik Hersman, he also founded iHub in Nairobi and is co-founder of Ushahidi an Open Source web application:
Regards, Christian
On 09/29/2017 01:18 PM, Bjoern Schiessle wrote:
how Free Software can help to export wealth and knowledge to development country in order to empower them.
Maybe https://www.rhizomatica.org and similar initiatives.
Kind Regards, Torsten
Hi Torsten,
I know GNU Dr. Geo was/is used in Ceibal educational plan in Uruguay.
Beside this video[1], I don't have much insight and I have no idea about daily school situation though.
Hilaire
[1] https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/file/27507/Aprendiendo-con-Ceibal-G...
Le 01/10/2017 à 16:15, Torsten Grote a écrit :
how Free Software can help to export wealth and knowledge to development country in order to empower them.
I know of GNU Health being used in various places.
I know some examples of Raspberry Pi, but we cannot run free/libre distros on it, see https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers.
Bjoern Schiessle schiessle@fsfe.org writes:
Hi all,
in October I will give a talk about how Free Software can help to export wealth and knowledge to development country in order to empower them.
For this I'm looking for some good examples. In the past there was the "One Laptop per Child" initiative. But I don't know how active they are today, didn't heard a lot about it for a long time.
Then I remember a example where a small region wanted to have programs translated to their native (traditional) language but because it was a tiny market proprietary software vendors refused to provide translation so they started using GNU/Linux where they could add the translation by them self. I'm no longer sure about the region, I think it was somewhere in Spain. Does someone here remember/know it?
Do you have any other examples where Free Software was used in education or economy to grow a region/country?
Thanks! Björn
On Wed, 04 Oct 2017 18:16:04 -0300 Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote:
I know of GNU Health being used in various places.
GNU Health would be a nice example. Can you name some places where it is used, maybe with a public reference?
Thanks a lot! Björn
I know some places in Jamaica, Philippines, South Africa and Mexico, see: http://videos.tryton.org/tuba2015/LuisFalcon-NewFeaturesInGNUHealth3.0.html (under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Bjoern Schiessle schiessle@fsfe.org writes:
GNU Health would be a nice example. Can you name some places where it is used, maybe with a public reference?
Thanks a lot! Björn
Hi all,
Am 04.10.2017 um 23:16 schrieb Adonay Felipe Nogueira:
I know of GNU Health being used in various places.
I know some examples of Raspberry Pi, but we cannot run free/libre distros on it, see https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers.
That page hasn't been updated since 2015. Meanwhile it became possible to start raspis without the binary blob: https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware Raspi is huge because the community support is so big.
Suitable boards that respect freedom right from the start might emerge from the RISC-V platform: https://riscv.org/ https://riscv.org/2017/10/design-news-article-linux-now-first-open-source-ri...
Best wishes Michael
Indeed, rpi-open-firmware is a step forward.
I just hope Raspberry Pi comes with it by default in the next shipments. ;)
Michael Kesper mkesper@schokokeks.org writes:
Hi all,
That page hasn't been updated since 2015. Meanwhile it became possible to start raspis without the binary blob: https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware Raspi is huge because the community support is so big.
Suitable boards that respect freedom right from the start might emerge from the RISC-V platform: https://riscv.org/ https://riscv.org/2017/10/design-news-article-linux-now-first-open-source-ri...
Best wishes Michael
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Hi all,
Thanks everybody for the nice examples. I think I have now a nice list for my talk.
Thanks a lot, Björn
You're welcome! ;)
Bjoern Schiessle schiessle@fsfe.org writes:
Hi all,
Thanks everybody for the nice examples. I think I have now a nice list for my talk.
Thanks a lot, Björn
Yes, ok, but please don't stop reporting examples for Free Software in education or economy on this list. I appreciate these examples very much. :-)
@Adonay thank you very much for the link to your GnuHealth example.
Best regards Christian
2017-10-07 18:34 GMT+02:00 Adonay Felipe Nogueira adfeno@hyperbola.info:
You're welcome! ;)
Bjoern Schiessle schiessle@fsfe.org writes:
Hi all,
Thanks everybody for the nice examples. I think I have now a nice list for my talk.
Thanks a lot, Björn
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2017-09-29 11:18 GMT-05:00 Bjoern Schiessle schiessle@fsfe.org:
in October I will give a talk about how Free Software can help to export wealth and knowledge to development country in order to empower them.
For this I'm looking for some good examples. In the past there was the "One Laptop per Child" initiative. But I don't know how active they are today, didn't heard a lot about it for a long time.
Then I remember a example where a small region wanted to have programs translated to their native (traditional) language but because it was a tiny market proprietary software vendors refused to provide translation so they started using GNU/Linux where they could add the translation by them self. I'm no longer sure about the region, I think it was somewhere in Spain. Does someone here remember/know it?
Do you have any other examples where Free Software was used in education or economy to grow a region/country?
SageDebianLive, a self-replicating, DebianLive-based USB key, shipping SageMath (the Sage mathematics software), and a lot more free software
- website
https://sagedebianlive.metelu.net/
- paper
Thierry Monteil Spreading huge free software without internet connection, via self-replicating USB keys https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.6754
That's a good one! ;)
Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de writes:
Maybe Lua's use at Petrobras would qualify?