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SELF News August 2009

wouter — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:37:34 +0200

SELF News
Irregular newsletter
Sharing knowledge about Free Software
25 August 2009

It's been a few months since the last SELF newsletter. We have all been busy
with different projects, but we have finally managed to write down an update on
what's going on in SELF:

FKFT - Free knowledge with SELF

wouter — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:11:08 +0200

During an intensive three day period, participants from the Phillipines, Mexico, Tanzania, USA, and many other countries around the world, not excluding Spain itself, gathered around the Free Knowledge, Free Technology conference in Barcelona. The conference, organised by the SELF Project, focused on the production and sharing of free educational and training materials about the concept of Free Software.

SELF News January 2008

hinde — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:11:44 +0100

SELF News
Monthly newsletter
Sharing knowledge about Free Software
Issue 16, 28 January 2008

Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference
SELF Open Documentary Contest
Fourth SELF Board Meeting
SELF Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria
New materials in Atutor
SELF at foss.in
About

1. Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference

Education for a free information society

First International Conference

July 15-17, 2008

Barcelona, Spain

http://fkft.eu

The Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference (FKFT) is the first international event which will centre on the production and sharing of educational and training materials in the field of Free Software and Open Standards. With the objective of promoting Free Software and the sharing of free knowledge, the FKFT 2008 Conference will bring together hundreds of people from different continents including government representatives, school and university teachers, IT companies, publishers, and NGO's. By gathering together people from all these groups, we aim to stimulate both present and future collaboration between diverse disciplines, sectors and countries, through the medium of free software programs and the sharing of successful experiences related to free software and free technologies.

SELF Open Documentary Contest

hinde — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:52:43 +0100

SELF Open Documentary Contest

Education for a free information society

1 january - 30 june 2008

http://selfproject.eu/contest

The SELF Project is pleased to announce The SELF Open Documentary Contest. Create a documentary about the creation of free knowledge and education in the digital era! Get your friends together, encourage your company to participate, or just let your own creativity flow freely.

SELF News December 2007

hinde — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:04:13 +0100

SELF News
Monthly newsletter
Sharing knowledge about Free Software
Issue 15, 21 December 2007

SELF Servers
Free Knowledge Institute
Plmontsià
Merry Christmas!
Agenda
About

1. SELF Servers

In the last month two new servers have been added to the infrastructure of the SELF Project. The machines have been kindly provided by Sun-AMD and AT Computing. Both servers are located in the Amsterdam area and administered by David Jacovkis in collaboration with the TEG team.

Both servers are running Debian stable with a basic barebone install. On the server that hosts beta.selfplatform.eu we installed only the minimum requirements for Zope/Plone. This will be the main server for the public Beta version of the platform. At the same time the development team is moving to gnowsys 1.0 working on Postgres and with version control. This is expected to improve drastically the performance and response time of the platform.

SELF News November 2007

hinde — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:03:25 +0100

SELF News
Monthly newsletter
Sharing knowledge about Free Software
Issue 14, 30 November 2007

SELF Open Documentary Contest
Free Software Conference in Colombia
SELF in Sweden
SELF in Croatia
Accessibility Conference and SELF
Agenda
About

1. SELF Open Documentary Contest

In the first half of 2008 SELF will organise an Open Documentary Contest to encourage visual artists around the world to participate in the production of a short documentary about Free Software and Open Standards. The aim of the contest is to allow amateurs as well as professionals to engage in the process of documentary creation in competition with one another, thus create high quality short documentaries. The awarded works, assessed by a panel of prominent people from the Free Software and art fields, will be available at the SELF Platform as part of the SELF collection of educational materials on Free Software and Open Standards.

SELF News October 2007

hinde — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:11:13 +0100

SELF News
Monthly newsletter
Sharing knowledge about Free Software
Issue 13, 30 October 2007

EC Review Meeting
SELF Platform Status
OpenDoc Society launched: Mare Liberum
SELF travels around Sweden
SELF in Extremadura
Agenda
About

1. EC Review Meeting

The SELF organisation has received feedback on the first periodic review meeting held mid-September during an expert review meeting with the European Commission. "The review gave an interesting picture of the project," the reviewer Alexis Monville writes. "The review was served by good quality documents and presentations." He gave assessments on various parts of the project. "The project is going well on its way. The slight delay on the development of the platform (WP6) and on the content development (WP7) is compensated by the anticipation of the dissemination (WP9) and community building (WP10) packages."

SELF News September 2007

hinde — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:41:38 +0200

SELF News
Monthly newsletter
Sharing knowledge about Free Software
Issue 12, 28 September 2007

SELF Launch at the UOC
New governmental policy on standards receives public support
C3 - Knowledge Collaborative Building Mailinglist is now open
SELF members at WIPO GA
SELF at CaFeCONF- Buenos Aires
SELF at European Services, Software and Grid Technology Days
Agenda
About

1. SELF Launch at the UOC

The official launch of SELF at the UOC will take place during the Autumn term meeting on 6th October at the UAB Campus in Bellaterra. This meeting is an opportunity for students, tutors and other members of the university community to come together to discuss face-to-face all kinds of academic issues. There are presentations and conferences, as well as tutorials and workshops. Wouter Tebbens and David Megías will jointly ake the presentation to launch the first version of the SELF platform to the UOC community.

Launch Stream

hinde — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:11:44 +0200

The launch of the SELF Platform and the conference held in Amsterdam were streamed on the internet. The streaming setup was made possible thanks to the collaboration of Jeffrey Snijder of livecast.nl.

The video files below can be downloaded. Due to a temporary issue, viewing in your browser might not work; once you've downloaded them onto your computer, you can open them in your favourite video viewer.

Download recorded videos:

Opening by Arjen Kamphuis
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Advanced international educational platform goes live

hinde — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:32:21 +0200

Free courses and a professional environment for teachers

A milestone for education on Free Software and Open Standards has been reached. On September 5th 2007 the beta version of the SELF Platform goes live. The official launch is taking place during a conference on Free Software in Education in the Netherlands, accompanied by satellite launch events in Sweden, Bulgaria, Argentina, Mexico and India with workshops and conferences.

The SELF Platform has been developed by a global team of non-profit organisations, universities and volunteers engaged in the SELF Project, an initiative for the collaborative sharing and creation of free educational and training materials on Free Software and Open Standards. Users, primarily learners and teachers, are enabled to assemble selections of learning contents and create custom-made learning material for lessons in their language. The Platform is launched in beta stage to involve the growing community in optimising the tool.

SELF - News

SELF News August 2009

FKFT - Free knowledge with SELF

SELF News January 2008

Contents

1. Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference

SELF Open Documentary Contest

SELF Open Documentary Contest

Education for a free information society

1 january - 30 june 2008

http://selfproject.eu/contest

SELF News December 2007

Contents

1. SELF Servers

SELF News November 2007

Contents

1. SELF Open Documentary Contest

SELF News October 2007

Contents

1. EC Review Meeting

SELF News September 2007

Contents

1. SELF Launch at the UOC

Launch Stream

Download recorded videos:

Advanced international educational platform goes live

Free courses and a professional environment for teachers