Eskom sponsors open source centre
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| Professor Barry Dwolatzky, JCSE academic director, says the Open
| Software Centre of Excellence will tie in with IBM's Linux Centre
| of Competency which is housed at the JCSE.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1438
Related:
[South African] Government switches to Open Source
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| Cape Town - Cabinet has approved a policy and strategy to implement
| Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in government, government
| communications head Themba Maseko said on Thursday.
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http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iSectionId=2888&iArticleId=3695987
http://tinyurl.com/2c8lbz
Tapping a world of schoolroom innovation
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| SchoolTool began development in 2000 and is funded by Mark Shuttleworth,
| of the South African-based Shuttleworth Foundation, creator of the
| free Ubuntu operating system.
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http://www.pbn.com/stories/24545.html
Open source project aids South African students
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| The non-profit tuXlab program, which provides network connectivity
| along with tuXlab GNU/Linux desktops and other open-source software
| to South Africa high schools, integrated 10 more schools into its
| wireless network on Feb. 9. The project reportedly has now connected
| tuXlabs in 50 schools near Cape Town.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3015125106.html
Back to school - tuXlab reviewed
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| tuXlabs is a freely distributed educational software package running
| on a specialised Ubuntu derivative which has been rolled out to
| schools across South Africa and serves over 160,000 learners.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1397
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