Platinum Sponsors

ESOF2008
European Union
Information Society Technologies

 

Silver Sponsors

Ajuntament de Barcelona
 

Bronze Sponsors

Internet Society
CENATIC

Programme Partners

FLOSSCom
CENATIC
 

Topics

Original papers, surveys, and presentations on all aspects of Free Software and Education are invited. Submissions must have a strong and visible bearing on the main topics, but can be interdisciplinary in nature and need not be exclusively concerned with Free Software. We welcome full academic papers, opinion pieces, review pieces, artistic, and audio-visual submissions. Possible topics for submission to the various sessions include, but are not limited to:

1. Free Software and Free Technologies in society:

  • Social implications of Free Knowledge and Free Technologies
  • Who creates Free Knowledge?
  • Quality assessment in collaborative authoring systems
  • Legal issues of Free Knowledge
  • The economy of Free Knowledge and Free Technologies

2. Free Knowledge and Free Technologies in public bodies

3. Educating in Freedom:

  • Technological aspects of e-learning
  • Introducing the SELF Platform
  • Training Free Technologies advocates

4. Showcase educational materials in one of the following topics:

  • Introduction to Free Software and Open Standards
  • Operating systems
  • Office tools
  • Educational tools
  • ERP
  • VoIP

Participants are encouraged to prepare Workshops and Train-the-trainer practical sessions introduced by a short talk in any of these topics. For oral communications, case studies and success stories will be favored for acceptance.

Hosted by:

 

Organised by the SELF Consortium:

 

                                   

 

And the Free Knowledge Institute:

 

Free Knowledge Institute