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The Polish Ministry of National Education is advising schools and universities to use Open Source software. The recommendation comes at the end of a volunteer campaign to help schools switch to Open Source.

The Ministry recommended in a statement that schools and universities use OpenOffice. The application suite is sufficiently mature and advanced to be used for teaching and for office use in education and science institutes. "OpenOffice can successfully substitute proprietary applications and will result in significant savings on licenses."

The ministry published the statement on its website on 17 July, three days before the official end of the 'WiOO w Szkole' ('Free and Open Software in Schools') campaign, a promotion tour run by 150 volunteers of the Polish Foundation on Open Source (Fwioo).

The Wioo w Szkole volunteers in the past ten months visited 99 schools, mostly junior and high schools, totalling 4506 students, in 43 villages and cities. "During these meetings, our volunteers presented Open Source applications, answered questions and cleared up doubts. They often also helped in installing the software on the PCs in school computer labs and on school servers", says Fwioo member Łukasz Nowicki, who began organising the campaign at the end of the summer in 2007 in Poznan, where Fwioo was founded.

Where possible, the Wioo w Szkole campaign volunteers used local Open Source enthusiasts. In the city of Bielsko Biała for example, all schools participated in the campaign. "We combined our visit to the city with the Free Software day, which attracted local Open Source developers and we even managed to interest university teachers and several local police officers."

About 30 percent of the schools visited by the Wioo w Szkole campaign  have switched at least partly to Open Source. Most of these schools configured their PCs to run a GNU/Linux distribution such as Ubuntu, Suse or Mandriva, alongside Windows. Nowicki: "Some school staff told us they are still considering a switch, others would use the summer vacation to for instance install OpenOffice and a few schools said they would switch to Open Source when they renew their computer labs."

A good example of a school using Open Source is, according to Nowicki, High School No 15 in the city of Wrocław. "At this school teachers show students how to use Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac OS X. This broad knowledge base lets students develop their interests without limiting them to a specific platform."

Source: Open Source Observatory "PL: Ministry of Education recommends Open Source" 5 August, 2008

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