I discovered `Three cups of tea <http://www.threecupsoftea.com>`__ when an article in OLPC news used it as a comparison against OLPC's goals and the lessons OLPC could/should have learnt from Greg Mortenson's work. This is the story of a man who is building schools in Pakistan …

This blog post by a teacher who's migrating his school IT system to an open-source infrastructure just came up on the Ubuntu-ie mailing list. It's happening in Northern Ireland but still goes on the list of "Irish schools using open-source" :)

That's really cool. The comments promise a follow-up post, I …

Today I started looking around for more research on schools using or migrating to open-source solutions and I'm finding quite an overwhelming amount of case studies (it's great! but difficult to review and digest) at all sorts of level (country-wide policies, city-wide, single school, county , district, area, state...)

Trying to …

In the midst of reports on what happened at Linux.conf.au I saw this link:

NZ school ditches Microsoft and goes totally open source

The story itself is interesting but the background it provides on the deals between the government and Microsoft for education is particularly eye-opening. I was …

Just found an awesome link about open-source in schools: http://opensourceschools.org.uk, thanks to the Ubuntu education mailing-list. I haven't had enough time yet to explore everything but this is exactly the kind of things I'm looking for, the case studies are really interesting -- and there's one based in …