2017-09-29 11:18 GMT-05:00 Bjoern Schiessle <schies...@fsfe.org>: > in October I will give a talk about how Free Software can help to > export wealth and knowledge to development country in order to empower > them. > > For this I'm looking for some good examples. In the past there was the > "One Laptop per Child" initiative. But I don't know how active they > are today, didn't heard a lot about it for a long time. > > Then I remember a example where a small region wanted to have programs > translated to their native (traditional) language but because it was a > tiny market proprietary software vendors refused to provide translation > so they started using GNU/Linux where they could add the translation by > them self. I'm no longer sure about the region, I think it was > somewhere in Spain. Does someone here remember/know it? > > Do you have any other examples where Free Software was used in > education or economy to grow a region/country?
SageDebianLive, a self-replicating, DebianLive-based USB key, shipping SageMath (the Sage mathematics software), and a lot more free software - website https://sagedebianlive.metelu.net/ - paper Thierry Monteil Spreading huge free software without internet connection, via self-replicating USB keys https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.6754
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