Countries

International Schools

Educational Philosophies

Bangkok Patana Mission Statement:

http://www.patana.ac.th/Prospectus/ [1] [313 clicks]

Colegio Internacional de Caracas:

http://www.cic-caracas.org/schoolmission/ [2] [360 clicks]

Colegio Internacional de Caracas

UNIS:

http://www.unis.org/guiding.asp [3] [333 clicks]

http://www.unis.org/guiding.asp

I.B. (International Baccalaureate)

I.B. Learner's Profile:

http://www.ibo.org/programmes/profile/ [4] [220 clicks]

http://www.ibo.org/programmes/profile/

IB Mission and Strategy:

http://www.ibo.org/mission/index.cfm [5] [252 clicks]

IB Mission

FLOSSEd

Linux Tutor:

http://linux-tutor.org/ [6] [328 clicks]

Docs for newcomers

Schoolforge:

http://www.schoolforge.net/ [7] [225 clicks]

SchoolForge's mission is to unify independent organizations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for education. We advocate the use of open texts and lessons, open curricula, free software and open source in education.

The Open Disc:

http://www.theopendisc.com/programs/ [8] [73 clicks]

Look for the download link for Open Education Disc: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/opendisc/OpenEducationDisc_08.05.iso

Free and Open Content

ibiblio:

http://www.ibiblio.org/ [9] [219 clicks]

15 years of making it free!

Librivox:

http://librivox.org/ [10] [262 clicks]

"Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books."

Project Gutenberg:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page [11] [260 clicks]

Michael Hart's seminal project to digitize books and give them away free so all people who wanted to could learn.

Free and Open Source Software

History

Excerpt from Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds:

http://linux.omnipotent.net/article.php [12] [322 clicks]

Story of Linux's creation.

Excerpt from Weaving the Web:

http://www.w3.org/2001/10/Patents-wtw-excerpt.html [13] [280 clicks]

by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ [14] [221 clicks]

ESR's study of Sendmail's development to discover why free software's collaborative development works.

The Open-Source Story:

http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2007/02/16/the_opensource_story_from_free.htm [15] [583 clicks]

The Open-Source Story: From Free Software To Revolution OS - Video

Operating Systems

Centos:

http://www.centos.org/ [16] [217 clicks]

http://www.centos.org/

Edubuntu:

http://www.edubuntu.org/ [17] [229 clicks]

http://www.edubuntu.org/

Fedora:

http://fedoraproject.org/ [18] [223 clicks]

http://fedoraproject.org/

Gentoo Linux:

http://www.gentoo.org/ [19] [231 clicks]

Gentoo

LTSP:

http://ltsp.org/ [20] [218 clicks]

http://ltsp.org/

Red Hat:

http://www.redhat.com/ [21] [282 clicks]

http://www.redhat.com/

SUSE-Novel:

http://www.novell.com/linux/ [22] [227 clicks]

From Novel (now)

TLE:

http://www.opentle.org/ [23] [309 clicks]

http://www.opentle.org/ (Thai)

Ubuntu Linux:

http://www.ubuntu.com/ [24] [221 clicks]

http://www.ubuntu.com/

What is FLOSS?

Open Source Software Definition:

http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php [25] [216 clicks]

ESR et al.

The Free Software Definition:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html [26] [221 clicks]

From home of the GNU project started by Richard Stalman.

Licenses

Creative Commons Licenses:

http://creativecommons.org/license/ [27] [217 clicks]

Creative Commons Licences

GNU/GPL Free Software Licenses:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ [28] [215 clicks]

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

Open Source Licenses:

http://opensource.org/licenses [29] [221 clicks]

Open Source Licenses

Why FLOSS?

TCO, TEI, TEE Studies for IT/ICT

Forester's TEI (Total Economic Impact):

http://www.forrester.com/TEI [30] [256 clicks]

Supposed to be more comprehensive than TCO.

Look at the Numbers!:

http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html#tco [31] [221 clicks]

TCO of free and open source software David A. Wheeler http://www.dwheeler.com/contactme.html Revised as of April 16, 2007

Schoolforge.net educational apps list:

http://www.schoolforge.net/education-software/educational [32] [351 clicks]

Schoolforge.net

Equivalent applications

Alternatives:

http://www.linux.ie/newusers/alternatives.php [33] [364 clicks]

Alternatives

Alternatives:

http://www.linuxalt.com/ [34] [274 clicks]

Alternatives

Linux equivalents of Windows applications:

http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/linux/equivalents.html [35] [401 clicks]

Linux equivalents of Windows applications

More equivalents:

http://www.opensourcehelpdesklist.com/ [36] [325 clicks]

http://www.opensourcehelpdesklist.com/

Table of equivalents:

http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html [37] [286 clicks]

Table of equivalents

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