Science, Education and Learning in Freedom

February 10th, 2008

Sofia, Bulgaria

Internet Society Bulgaria , the French Cultural Institute, Linux for Bulgarians and the SELF Project are organising an international conference in Sofia on "Science, Education and Learning in Freedom" with a focus on free educational materials about Free Software and Open Standards. The conference will be held on February 10th, 2008, starting from 10 o'clock, at the French Cultural Institute in Sofia, 2 Dyakon Ignatij Str., Sofia, Bulgaria.

The main objective of the conference is to provide the representatives of educational institutes, as well as the Free Software community in Bulgaria with information on the SELF Project, its benefits and how they could use its resources in the best manner. The SELF Platform will be presented and its key-functionalities will be demonstrated in front of representatives from different educational institutions in Bulgaria.

Among the speakers on the conference will be Wouter Tebbens (ISOC.nl), Jonas Oberg (FSFE / UGOT), Federico Heinz (FVL) and David Megias (UOC). SELF also invited a prominent volunteer within the SELF Platform - Vedran Vucuc from GnuLinux Centar Serbia, who will share his experience with Atutor and will explain how the SELF Platform can be used to export from there to Atutor and to use it in virtual classrooms.

The preliminary program of the conference can be found here:

- Bulgarian version

- English version