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Madrid Mozilla Technologies Course

Submitted by Greg Mount on June 11, 2009 - 8:49am

Mark Surman just forwarded me the following link to a course being offered collaboratively between the Mozilla Foundation, Mozilla Europe & Universidad Rey Juan Carlos:

http://mozilla.libresoft.es/

Very interesting case of open source meets higher ed.

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No surprise...

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Submitted by Rouben on June 11, 2009 - 3:07pm.

I'm not at all surprised... I consider Europe to be ahead of North America when it comes to open source (at least understanding what it really means, not necessarily adoption; which isn't for everyone!) and technology in general.

IIRC, there were a few

Submitted by Mike Serafin on June 11, 2009 - 3:48pm.

IIRC, there were a few municipal governments, in France I believe, who have gone completely open source in their offices. It would be cool to see if a division or department in our university would do this as well. Maybe there is one already?

French Police

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Submitted by Rouben on June 11, 2009 - 5:27pm.

French Gendarmerie (sp) is one example of a government body that adopted OpenOffice initially and eventually switched completely to Linux desktops (not sure what flavour, possible SuSE or RedHat).

In terms of doing this at U of T, I think some departments already have done that. I'd look at Computer Science, and various Engineering departments...