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<bold>Free software in schools

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<italic><underline>SUMMARY</underline></italic>


Example of use


Presentation of OFSET



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<underline>Free Software at the Taipei French School</underline>



Our public


students from:
    primary school
    high-school


teachers


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<underline>TFS - OS & software Needs (1)</underline>


user-oriented (~):
    where are my bookmarks?
    where did I save my file?


software usable by students


design our school news paper & our web page	



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<underline>TFS - OS & software Needs (2)</underline>


customizable:
   the choice of a window manager
   multi-lingual ability


easy to deploy:
   network installation
   automatic installation


inter-operable with other OS



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<underline>TFS - Which software (1)</underline>


Dr Geo - interactive geometry
Emacs - editor
GNU Plot - function plotter
Gnumeric - spreadsheet
IceWM & Gnome


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<underline>TFS - Which software (2)</underline>



TCL - programming language
The Gimp - photo retouch
Xfig - vector drawing
Lyx - math editor
Proprietary softwares - office & communication



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Xfig


geometric construction game:



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The Gimp - Art photo retouch (1)




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The Gimp - Art photo retouch (2)




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GNU Plot - Ohm law 
In physic, fitting collected data





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GNU Plot - Temperature


Temperature of changing state of the water





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Gnumeric - Experimenting equation (1)




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Gnumeric - Experimenting equation (2)




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<underline>The advantages</underline>


sharing the software
user oriented system
great flexibility
no license problem when deploying



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<underline>The drawbacks</underline>


lack of consistency in the software interface
not yet free office quality software
few educational software
not fully internationalized


<bold>Future plan to resolve this drawbacks

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The Gnome project - more consistency


Gnome Office - free office package


Gtk pango - international input method


OFSET - Organization for free edu soft



<bold>OFSET - www.ofset.org

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<italic>Organization for Free Software in Education & Teaching</italic>


<underline>What is it?</underline>
a not for profit french organization to promote the development of free edu soft



<bold>OFSET - www.ofset.org

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<italic>Organization for Free Software in Education & Teaching</italic>


<underline>Who is it?</underline>
George Lebl, president - Gnome hacker & Dr. Genius developer
Hilaire Fernandes, vice-president & secretary - Dr. Geo & Dr. Genius developer
Georges Ko, treasurer - developer
Laurent Gauthier, co-secretary - Dr. Genius developer




<bold>OFSET - Objectives (1)</bold>


<underline>Promoting</underline>


development & port of free educational software under the Gnome desktop


i18n & l10n


free documentation for educational software



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<underline>Compiling free edu soft</underline>	


package to ease deployment in Gnome


a community service		



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<underline>Documenting Gnome RAD tools as Python + Glade + Libglade</underline>


to ease development under Gnome


to empower teacher



<bold>OFSET - The Charter

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to follow the GNU philosophy


to use only free development tools


to push Gnome as a desktop choice for schools to be coherent and consistent


to use RAD tool when possible




<bold>OFSET - Joining & helping

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becoming an active or adherent member
    government
    school institution
    individual


developing free educational software for Gnome


fund to help free educational software project



<bold>OFSET - Development

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<underline>Development by founding members</underline>


Gnome


Dr. Genius


Dr. Geo


Gnome developer tutorial