The document discusses FOSS (free and open source software) education and training. It outlines the definition of FOSS education, pertinent questions about digital literacy and knowledge sharing, and answers regarding basic computer literacy skills and building an open knowledge commons using FOSS tools. Challenges to FOSS education include lack of curriculum resources and conflicting paradigms. Ideas explored are catching students young with open software education, using widely available scientific applications to improve communities, and taking a participatory approach including teachers and communities to increase FOSS education adoption.

3. FOSS Education

4. Open Educational Resources (OERs)

5. Impact of FOSS Education and OERs

6. Ideas worth exploring

7. Pandey, I. P. 2006. Literate lives across the digital divide, Computers and Composition 23:246–257 while the digital/electronic media allow me to beat the limits of time and place, they also implicate me in a new divide of global scale, limiting my practices only to one side of the divide although my literate behaviors on the digital front simultaneously shape and are shaped by those that lie clearly outside its purview

10. Transmitting all the knowledge , skills and values we have accumulated about FOSS to the masses. Best teachers plant knowledge seeds that grow forever

12. How can we adopt new literacies and adapt them to our literacies? Are all literacies adaptable ?

13. How do our digital literacies shape and are shaped by our contemporary literacies? What are we doing with/to our indigenous knowledge? ?

16. FOSS programming languages

17. FOSS development methodology

19. FOSS Software developement

20. Knowledge repositories

21. Open Sourcing knowledge

23. Integration computer literacy into the school curriculum good, but would be more beneficial if it is adaptable for other literacies.

26. Fostering freedom and openness

27. Improving on the reliability, performance and security

29. Encouraging local innovations

32. OER

33. Collaboration

35. Improving programiming skills

36. Mentored Internships

40. Increased openness -> reduced complexity

41. Flexibility -> localisation, customisation

42. Scalability -> adaptability

43. Improved participation -> commons

44. Improved technology -> more developments

45. Educated mass -> learning by doing

48. Differentiate between training and gaining an education

49. Educate the young mind for complexities and sophistication of the problem-solutions for the future

51. All we need is the open source approach to issues

53. Having them in the FOSS education movement will increase the interest in FOSS, FOSS education

55. But also, shaped by what we envisage the future to look like.

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