== About this page ==

This is a template page for '''A Profile of the Education Situation in a Country'''.

It will be filled out as a real example for:
 * Germany

By:
 * Julius Bloch
 * Richard Weideman

And then we will generalise it into a template which will be given to other Education Country Contacts, who will fill it out for their location.  

= TEMPLATE =

''This is the general section ... to gather the correct topics.''

=== Local Country Contact for Education ===

 * Name
 * Email
 * Role

=== Languages used in Education ===

 * Primary Language (% of total)
 * Secondary Language (% of total)

=== Policies of the National Education System ===

 * Is the policy for schooling set:
  * nationally
  * regions
  * cities
  * by each school

 * Is the choice of operating system:
  * country wide
  * province / county / region
  * individual per city
  * individual per school

=== Types of Education Bodies / Schools ===

 * Is there one single type of school:
  * government
  * private
  * religiious

=== Policy or Stance on Open Source ===

 * What is the general government policy or stance on Open Source 
  - in education
  - in other sectors

 * Are there any government Open Source targets or mandates
  - in action
  - announced in the press

=== Open Source in Schools : General ===

 * Have there been any large rollouts of Open Source in education anywhere in the country
  - if yes, what distro
  - if no, any obvious reasons or stumbling blocks which spring to mind

=== Open Source in Schools : Specific Examples ===

 * Create & Maintain a List of Open Source based schools / districts
  - identify which (if any) if these are Ubuntu based
  - create a local community network
  - share the community network across countries

= Germany =

''This is the example section ... it will be popuated to flesh out & test the template .''

=== Local Country Contact for Education ===

 * Julius Bloch
 * jbloch@edubuntu.org
 * Role

=== Languages used in Education ===

 * Primary Language: german
 * some local dialect

=== Policies of the National Education System ===

 * Is the policy for schooling set:
  * most times each school

 * Is the choice of operating system:
  * individual for every school

=== Types of Education Bodies / Schools ===

 * Is there one single type of school:
  * government
  * private
  * religiious

=== Policy or Stance on Open Source ===

 * What is the general government policy or stance on Open Source 
  * there is no gernal policy, every federal state has his own policy, sometimes every city

 * Are there any government Open Source targets or mandates
  * The BIS developed a debian based distribution called "Behördendesktop"

=== Open Source in Schools : General ===

 * Have there been any large rollouts of Open Source in education anywhere in the country
  - if yes, what distro
  - if no, any obvious reasons or stumbling blocks which spring to mind

=== Open Source in Schools : Specific Examples ===

 * Create & Maintain a List of Open Source based schools / districts
  - identify which (if any) if these are Ubuntu based
  - create a local community network
  - share the community network across countries

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