1. What is SELF?
   
2. Does SELF tackle technical issues only? Or is it also about related topics such as copyright, marketing or Free Software project management?
   
3. What does SELF stand for?
   
4. Where is SELF located?
   
5. Who are the Consortium partners?
   
6. How can I contact you?
   
7. What is the difference between the SELF Project and the SELF Platform?
   
8. What are the start dates and the end dates of this project? What is the length/term?
   
9. Is SELF affiliated with other organisations or simular projects?
   
10. Where did the funding for this project come from?
    
11. What is the SELF Support Programme?
    
12. Which categories do you have in the SELF Support Programme?
13. How can I become a SELF Support Partner?

1.1 What is SELF?

SELF aims to be the central place where people can share quality educational and training materials about Free Software and Open Standards, based on a world-class technological platform and in collaboration with global communities.

1.2 Does SELF tackle technical issues only? Or is it also about related topics such as copyright, marketing or Free Software project management?

It is also about related topics such as copyright, marketing or Free Software project management.

1.3 What does SELF stand for?

SELF is an acronym for Science, Education and Learning in Freedom.

1.4 Where is SELF located?

SELF is an international project with partners from all over the world. A list of partner organisations can be found on our Consortium pages and their contact information is published on our contact page.

1.5 Who are the Consortium partners?

The Consortium consists of three Universities (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain, University of Göteburg, Sweden, and Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai, India) with specific knowledge and expertise on Research and Education. A second group of entities consists of NGO's active as Free Software advocates (Internet Society Netherlands, Free Software Foundation Europe, Internet Society Bulgaria and Fundación Via Libre in Argentina) with a huge experience of raising awareness on the use of Free Software. For all of their profiles see here .

1.6 How can I contact you?

You can reach us by sending an email .

1.7 What is the difference between the SELF Project and the SELF Platform?

The SELF Project is the organisation behind the SELF Platform. While the project involves all the project management, organisational structure, and so on, offers the SELF Platform an online learning environment with educational and training materials about Free Software and Open Standards.

1.8 What are the start dates and the end dates of this project? What is the length/term?

SELF was first launched in July 2006 with an initial running time of two years. We expect that the SELF Platform will become self-sustainable, supported by many organisations and individuals.

1.9 Is SELF affiliated with other organisations or simular projects?

SELF is an independent consortium with no affiliations to other organisations or projects that compromise our abilities to share, create, stimulate and promote knowledge in the area of Free Software and Open Standards freely, thoroughly and objectively. We do have our SELF Support Programme, our Support Partners will be listed on our website shortly.

1.10 Where did the funding for this project come from?

The European Commission supports the SELF project for the initial set up of the platform and the first educational and training materials. Additional funding is expected from national and local governments for localisation, dissemination and specific activities. Once established, participating members from target groups will benefit from the platform and exploit its results freely. The aim is to produce a snow ball effect starting with public funding.

1.11 What is the SELF Support Programme?

The SELF Support Programme is a partnership strategy to support SELF with various ways of contributions.

1.12 Which categories do you have in the SELF Support Programme?

SELF can benefit from many different types of contributions. We have organised them into these main sections:

Educational partners: provide important contributions to learning materials, for the creation, editing, translation and quality assurance. They include Free Software communities, government bodies and agencies, educational institutes, training organisations, certification organisations.

Technology and Service partners: provide important contributions to the technical development and hosting infrastructures of the Platform. They include therefore technology developers, datacentre partners, and possibly other service partners.

External Communication partners: help disseminate the existence and specific materials of the SELF Platform. Partners help for instance in announcing SELF through their communication channels, publish articles and organise workshops and other events about SELF and/or with SELF materials. Partners include media organisations of all types, event organisations and other organisations that actively promote SELF.

Distribution partners: distribute SELF materials through different channels such as in printed form in books, in digital form in electronic learning platforms and/or on CD/DVD. Partners include publishers, virtual learning platforms, and other organisations that may help distribute.

1.13 How can I become a SELF Support Partner?

Please contact us directly .