FUSS is a complete GNU/Linux solution based on Debian to roll-out and administrate a whole school network. It is in the meantime a digital sustainability project that since 2005 gives students and teachers the opportunity to use at home the same tools installed at school, freely and without any cost for families.

1. FUSS:
13 Years of Digital Sustainability in the Schools of
South Tyrol
Paolo Dongilli
Technical Inspector – FUSS Coordinator
Intendenza Scolastica Italiana
November 16th, 2018

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FUSS
Free
Upgrade for a digitally
Sustainable
School

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FUSS
IT Lab in the Middle school “Ada Negri” in Bozen-Bolzano

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FUSS 9

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Topology of a typical school network

6. FUSS Server
●
DHCP server
● DNS server
● Web server
● Firewall
●
Autoconfiguration of FUSS clients
● LDAP for network users and groups
● Kerberos authentication
● Distribution of policies regarding permissions
towards all clients
● HTTP Proxy/Cache server
● VOIP as PBX (private branch exchange) with
possibility to interconnect more schools
● Content filter
●
Windows domain controller
● File and printer sharing
● Backup
● WiFi captive portal

7. FUSS Maintenance Tools
● fuss-client
● OctoNet
● OctoMon

8. OctoNet

9. OctoMon
(server and client monitoring tool)

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Digital Sustainability
● Free Software
● Open Standards
● Free Didactic Materials
KNOWLEDGE SHARING

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Free Software
Omnis enim res, quae dando non
deficit, dum habetur et non datur,
nondum habetur, quomodo habenda
est.
(For if a thing is not diminished by being
shared with others, it is not rightly owned if
it is only owned and not shared.)
Aurelius Augustinus (354-430)

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Free Software’s Virtuous Circle
1.USE
2.STUDY
3.MODIFY
4.SHARE

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Proprietary Software

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Free Software

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Who uses Free Software and GNU/Linux?

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Who uses Free Software and GNU/Linux?
Most of the world’s network infrastructure runs on Free Software
2007 map showing submarine
fiberoptic telecommunication
cables around the world.
(fonte: Wikipedia)

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Who uses Free Software and GNU/Linux?
Linux powers 100% of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers
https://tinyurl.com/500supercomputers
Tianhe-2 in National Supercomputer
Center in Guangzhou, China
(fonte: Wikipedia)

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Who uses Free Software and GNU/Linux?
Android, with a market share of around 85% is based on Linux
https://tinyurl.com/phone-market-share

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Who uses Free Software and GNU/Linux?
La maggior parte dei dispositivi usati per l’Internet delle cose

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Who uses Free Software and GNU/Linux?
Local means of transportation in South Tyrol use computers with
GNU/Linux on board.

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Who uses Free Software and GNU/Linux?
Public schools in Estremadura (Spain) with ~70.000 PC

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Who uses Free Software and GNU/Linux?
Italian Schools in South Tyrol
16.000 students
1.850 teachers
72 schools
4.000 PCs and notebooks
64 servers
~3.000 packages installed on every PC
250 educational software packages

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Why Free Software?
“We want our kids to be innovators
and inventors, not technology
tourists”
– Charlie Reisinger,
IT director, Penn Manor School District,
Lancaster, PA

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Innovate with Free Software

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Students’ Stages and voluntary work
Marco Marinello
Davide Nobile

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Innovare con Software Libero
Teachers Massimo Previdi
and Michele di Mauro show
the software used in middle
and high schools.
A student shows one out of
several projects developed
with the open source board
Arduino.
FUSS Workshop all’IDM

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Free Software
https://publiccode.eu/

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Public Money – Public Code
National Law:
CAD – Codice dell’Amministrazione Digitale
Articles 68 and 69

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Art. 68 CAD
● Obbligo di scegliere software libero o a codice aperto, ovvero
software in riuso
● tranne nei casi in cui ciò fosse impossibile;
● valutazione di impossibilità va fatta secondo i criteri e i metodi
fissati dall’Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale

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Art. 69 CAD (sharing and reuse)
● Le pubbliche amministrazioni che siano titolari di soluzioni e
programmi informatici realizzati su specifiche indicazioni del
committente pubblico, hanno l'obbligo di rendere disponibile il
relativo codice sorgente, completo della documentazione e
rilasciato in repertorio pubblico sotto licenza aperta, in uso
gratuito ad altre pubbliche amministrazioni o ai soggetti
giuridici che intendano adattarli alle proprie esigenze, salvo
motivate ragioni di ordine e sicurezza pubblica, difesa nazionale
e consultazioni elettorali.

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South Tyrol’s Deliberation Nr. 1432 - 19.12.2017
Measures to reduce public expenses during the years 2017 and
2018
[…] queste misure mirano innanzitutto a limitare ulteriormente le
spese correnti o quantomeno a non aumentarle. [...]

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Financial aspects
Riepilogo spese annue progetto FUSS
Anno Importo
2009 € 5.880,00
2010 € 15.600,00
2011 € 11.699,40
2012 € 15.846,89
2013 € 5.368,33
2014 € 15.168,24
2015 € 17.100,41
2017 € 35.136,00
€ 121.799,27
Anno Descrizione Durata Importo
2002 Microsoft School Agreement annuale € 156.760,00
2003 Microsoft School Agreement annuale € 165.156,38
2004 Microsoft School Agreement annuale € 159.773,00
2005 Licenze Microsoft Windows XP illimitata € 23.940,00
BEFORE
AFTER
During a period of 9 years,
thanks to Free Software,
expenses were lower than one
year of Microsoft licenses.

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Transparency - webpage

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Transparency – project management & source code

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Transparency – packages and ISOs

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Transparency - documentation

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Transparency by Law
FUSS strictly complies with article 69 of the Italian
Code for the Digital Administration (CAD)
All the code developed for FUSS is free, public, and
transparent and it can be consulted here:
https://fuss.bz.it
https://iso.fuss.bz.it
https://work.fuss.bz.it

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Open Standards
● Are the pillars of cooperation in the modern society
● Allow people to share all kinds of data freely
● Avoid lock in and other artificial barriers against
interoperability
●
Promote vendor’s change and renewal of technological
solutions

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Open Standards
An example:
●
ODF – Open Document Format used by LibreOffice and many
other products (standard ISO/IEC 26300:2006)
● Documento di testo: .odt
● Foglio di calcolo: .ods
●
Presentazione: .odp
● Grafica: .odg
Allowed file formats by the Province of Bozen-Bolzano:
https://tinyurl.com/formati-pab

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Open Standards

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Freely available educational resources
Fonte: www.matematicadolce.it

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Sharing Educational Resources
FUSS offers some useful services to allow sharing and
publication of educational resources
● e-Learning Platforms (Chamilo, Moodle)
●
File hosting service, calendar, contacts, ... (nextCloud)

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FUSS Group
● FUSS Lab: @Italian School Department; governance,
distribution release, tests, software selection
4 persons – Paolo Dongilli, Piergiorgio Cemin, Massimo
Previdi, Claudio Cavalli with the cooperation of Mauro Valer as
school inspector.
● FUSS Technicians: @IT Department server; PC and network
maintenance:
10 technicians (6 FTE)
● FUSS Technical Referents: @school: 1st level support
72 teachers

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Open & Linux Desks for Citizens
Twice a month In Bozen,
Meran and Bruneck

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