Comments on: FLOSS Your World: It’s About Free (Steve Braunius) http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/04/22/floss-your-worldits-about-free-steve-brauniussteve-braunius/ Weblog of Wesley Fryer Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: shane@edu-nix.org » Every School Should Have Tuxpaint Installed… http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/04/22/floss-your-worldits-about-free-steve-brauniussteve-braunius/comment-page-1/#comment-35336 shane@edu-nix.org » Every School Should Have Tuxpaint Installed… Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:23:46 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/04/22/floss-your-worldits-about-free-steve-brauniussteve-braunius/#comment-35336 [...] Here is an account of one self-confessed “geek” fourth-grade-teacher-turned-tech-director experience with an EDUbuntu Live CD, which he describes as “a bigger deal than Windows versus Macintosh discussions”. Every school should have TuxPaint installed on its computers, for learners of all ages. It’s powerful and free. What is holding back the implementation of software solutions like TuxPaint in many schools is not just knowledge and awareness of the availability of these tools, but a mindset that fallaciously believes schools should only run software programs that are either commercial, from Redmond, or both. Our mindsets and the mindsets of many of our leaders are holding us back in many cases more than anything else. [...] [...] Here is an account of one self-confessed “geek” fourth-grade-teacher-turned-tech-director experience with an EDUbuntu Live CD, which he describes as “a bigger deal than Windows versus Macintosh discussions”. Every school should have TuxPaint installed on its computers, for learners of all ages. It’s powerful and free. What is holding back the implementation of software solutions like TuxPaint in many schools is not just knowledge and awareness of the availability of these tools, but a mindset that fallaciously believes schools should only run software programs that are either commercial, from Redmond, or both. Our mindsets and the mindsets of many of our leaders are holding us back in many cases more than anything else. [...]

]]> By: Bill Kendrick http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/04/22/floss-your-worldits-about-free-steve-brauniussteve-braunius/comment-page-1/#comment-34769 Bill Kendrick Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:38:15 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/04/22/floss-your-worldits-about-free-steve-brauniussteve-braunius/#comment-34769 Thanks for the kind words about Tux Paint! And I had no idea Tux Paint was being mentioned at this conference; I've added it to the Past Events links at tuxpaint.org. Thanks again! -bill! Thanks for the kind words about Tux Paint! And I had no idea Tux Paint was being mentioned at this conference; I’ve added it to the Past Events links at tuxpaint.org. Thanks again!

-bill!

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