JuanLu’s blog

Last week it took place in Barcelona (Spain) the 1st Free Knowledge Free Technology (FKFT) conference, where around 200 people involved in FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) and teaching were talking about how FLOSS can come into the classrooms in all the levels, from the school to the university.

In the 3 days that the conference consisted, we had so many different speeches in some others topics. From presentations of official Libre software masters to the rights in of the content in media types now at days. I was there because I am part of the team in NetGenners, one of the projects related with this issue that we were discussing there.

What we could get from there is that the use of FLOSS in the teaching, mostly in the high level (university and masters) is growing and growing because of his facility to be used and studied, due to you have everything  online to study it and the added value of a community, either big or small, behind each project. That is one of the reasons that make teachers to introduce this type of software (or other projects not software related such as documentation, …) into the classrooms. And I’m not only talking about university students, also this type of projects is used to continue with the formation of some other professionals that want to improve their knowledge in this technology because they need it or because they like it.

Also the meeting was good to know new people interested in open new projects together big or small collaborations that helps the community to be more active and create a bigger social network working together in different topics of with the same base, the FLOSS in the teaching.