Reduce waste this week, next Christmas and every other day
The week from Nov. 22 to Nov. 29 is the European Waste Reduction Week. The reason for such an initiative is obvious from the 2008 images from Naples: many other cities worldwide risk similar crisis and it’s pointless to discuss whether one should recycle or burn waste if you don’t minimize the amount of waste in the first place.
One hour with the XO laptop in a Nepali school
On Nov. 5th, 2009, during the first OLE Assembly in Kathmandu, I visited a class that uses the XO laptop in the Binayak Bal School of Badal Gaun, Nepal.
Ninux Day: here's why you too may need your "neighborhood Internet"
According to TV commercials, a fast Internet connection turns your whole life upside down: music, movies and online games at the smallest possible cost, more news than you may ever handle and, above all, cheaper and more efficient services of all kinds. The Internet makes it possible to use a computer to stop wasting hours in lines at medical centers, banks or postal offices, or to keep your public administrators under control.
OOo4Kids, the office suite for all children... and their parents
OOo4Kids is a special version of OpenOffice.org (the popular, free and easy to use alternative to Microsoft Office) which is very interesting and useful not only for schools, but also for many adult users. Besides, interaction with developers seems much simpler and friendlier than in many other Free Software projects. Keep reading to know, straight from OOo4Kids developer Eric Bachard, what is that makes OOo4kids unique.
The "Respect Creativity" project from EMCA Italia: do they tell the whole story?
In August 2009 an administrative employee of an Italian school announced on a teachers mailing list that his school had received an invitation to a European Educational Project for protection of creativity and copyright by Dott.ssa Isabella Longo, Coordinator of EMCA Italia (EMCA is the European Music Copyright Alliance).