--- Marco Fioretti wrote:

Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:49:19 +0200 From: Marco Fioretti To: d_rosh2001@yahoo.co.in Subject: Wanted: Free Software resources for all families and schools

Greetings,

I am a freelance writer specialized in FOSS topics, Contributing editor of Linux Journal

(http://www.linuxjournal.com/xstatic/corporate/staff/Marco)

and member of the OpenDocument Fellowship.

I'd like to let you know about a new personal initiative of mine, which will hopefully make lots of parents and teachers understand why they cannot ignore FOSS and Free Culture anymore in the interest of their own children.

I am going to publish on the Digifreedom website:

• a directory of Digitally Free Schools, that all

parents may check when choosing a new school for their children. http://digifreedom.net/node/55

• one of bad public websites,

http://digifreedom.net/node/76

• one of Trashware organizations,

http://digifreedom.net/node/92

• a list of examples of "Bad ICT information", that

is links to article from mainstream press or websites which have no clue of what Free Software actually is, so all parents and other non-hackers can learn to recognize them.

• forums on Digitally Free School and Digitally Free

Families: http://digifreedom.net/forum/30 where all citizens concerned about the attacks on the Digital Freedom of their schools or families can work together to protect it.

All these are and will always remain absolutely free services to the whole community: I hope to make of these databases something that all parents and teachers, especially those who know nothing or very little about software, will be able to use to do the right choices in the best interest of their children's education and of their own civil rights.

The reason why I am writing is only to let your LUG know that I always welcome any submission to any of those databases (the more the better), either through the forums above or via direct email.

Obviously, should you find it appropriate, you are also welcome to spread the word about the databases, forums and my Open Letter to Mothers about Software (http://digifreedom.net/node/74) as much as you wish, *especially* outside Free Software circles. Teachers, parents associations, churches, senior citizens clubs, any youth organization, whatever: the more non-programmers we can reach with this approach, the better it would be for Free Standards and Software.

Thank you in advance for your time! Any general feedback is also welcome!

    Best Regards,

    Marco Fioretti

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