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Voices from the Open (Source) Education Revolution

Another project listened to the experience of educators on open source in education. Interestingly their sayings are also reflecting on open source principles for education.

* Tell us about your experience with open source in education and especially open source principles for education.

* We like to hear both: voices from educators and voices from students!

* Be also welcome of recommending your experience as a “Best Case” or just to share a “Lesson Learnt”.

* Have your say too!

FLOSS community voices

* The open source model... The reason it works, the reason that good software comes out of it, is that it's based on collaboration. - Paul Nelson, K-12 educator ''listened at...''

* Giving back is almost my version of giving payment for what I've gotten... - Mark Schmidt, K-12 educator ''listened at...''

* They've been very free with their time and their expertise. .. They don't expect anything in return. - Don Wolff, K-12 educator ''listened at...''

* The community's out there, and they're ready to help. ... A lot of the time it's just letting them know you're there. - Ben Mabbott, K-12 educator ''listened at...''

* I've relied on the community a lot. ... I can usually get answers to issues I post within 24 hours, sometimes less. ... I've even in contact with some of the big guys, like I've had Eric Raymond email me back and help me. These guys are available online. They're like the open source gurus and they'll help you out... Mike Harris with Red Hat... A bunch of great guys. They'll help anybody out. A lot of them especially want to help the poor schools to open source. They've been very very helpful. - Anthony Baldwin, K-12 educator ''listened at...''

* You feel like you're helping a grassroots movement rather than a big corporation. ... You say, Hey I'm a member of [this LUG], you can join their mailing list, and you're in. - Ben Mabbott, K-12 educator ''listened at...''

* ...teaching our students those kind of community principles is something that we should be doing. - Anthony Baldwin, K-12 educator ''listened at...''

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FLOSS support voices

* When you do usual stuff, it's easy to find solutions on the Web. - Ben Mabbott, K-12 educator ''listened at...''

* Usually within a matter of a half hour or an hour I have several informative, correct answers to help me figure what I need to do to solve a problem. - Paul Nelson, K-12 educator ''listened at...''

* Sometimes there are people in the community that say "read the stupid manual." I've seen a change in attitude over the last year. When I first came in, it seemed like there were a lot of guys, they were heavy duty geeks and there was almost a resistance to helping the clueless Windows users out. More and more I see people being helpful with people that are moving away from Windows to the open source world... people are more patient with stuff that seems pretty basic. - Anthony Baldwin, K-12 educator ''listened at...''

* Get involved with mailing lists and local open source user groups; they are your best resource for advice and support. There is almost certainly a Linux Users Group in your area: find them! They probably have a website and a mailing list, which is a great resource for open source. Any problem you encounter has probably been seen before, and someone on the list probably has the solution, or can help find one. - Ben Mabbott, K-12 educator ''listened at...''

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FLOSS content voices

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