[p2p-research] Fwd: FTA Announce #9: Associate Network expansion & quick news

[Michel Bauwens]

many thanks for spreading the news about this announcement!!

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From: Hinde ten Berge <hinde at freeknowledge.eu>
Date: Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:39 AM
Subject: FTA Announce #9: Associate Network expansion & quick news
To: james burke <lifesized at gmail.com>, Michel Bauwens <
michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
Cc: Wouter Tebbens <wouter at freeknowledge.eu>


Hi James and Michel,

We've sent out the announcement as below, with the full announcement on
P2P-F on http://ftacademy.org/announce/p2pf



Cheers,

       Hinde.

>From the Free Knowledge Institute about the Free Technology Academy

Permanent link: http://ftacademy.org/announce/9

FTA Announcement #9: Expansion of the FTA Associate Network and quick FTA
News

== Gleducar joins the FTA Associate Network ==

We are happy to announce the joining of Gleducar into the FTA network.
Argentine non-profit organisation Gleducar has been working in the Free/Open
Education field for almost ten years. It has built a community with over 500
educators and learners and is one of the most important educational
initiatives of Latin America. Gleducar NGO will contribute relevant feedback
and review FTA Course materials. It will also participate in the development
of future courses about open and free educational tools for teachers.

We plan to expand the FTA in Latin America through the participation of the
Gleducar community in our dissemination strategies. As an official
associated partner Gleducar members are encouraged to represent and
communicate the Free Technology Academy with the objective to grow the
network of participants in the community and partners in the project.

More information: http://ftacademy.org/announce/gleducar

== P2P Foundation joins the FTA Associate Network ==

The FTA is proud to announce the incorporation of the Foundation for P2P
Alternatives (P2P-F) to its Associate Network. The P2P-F is the organisation
behind the most extensive research platform on peer production topics around
the world.

The P2P-F will contribute to the FTA in various ways, such as providing
Guest Lectures to FTA courses and communicating FTA news through their
networks. Feedback is expected on course materials, and advise and help with
improving the FTA curriculum. One particular joint project the P2P-F will be
working on together with the Free Knowledge Institute is the development of
a course on "Peer Production and Commons Theory". This course will be
developed following the peer production model and will be open for
contributions by peers and other organisations. The resulting course will be
hosted by the Free Technology Academy and its partners.

More information: http://ftacademy.org/announce/p2pf

== FTA Quick news ==

The Free Technology Academy keeps moving on and of course we are working on
the upcoming year's courses. The FTA 2011 campus activities start in the
second week of January 2011. For the first term, the following courses are
scheduled:

* The concepts of Free Software and Open Standards
* GNU/Linux Basic
* GNU/Linux Advanced
* Free Software Utilities
* Network Technologies
* Web applications development
* Software development
* Implementation of Free Software and Case Studies

We offer a 10% early bird discount for registrations up to 2 months before
the scheduled start of the course. So don't wait any longer and register!

More information and the full 2011 programme:
http://ftacademy.org/courses/programme/2011

== About the Free Technology Academy ==

A Consortium formed by the Open University of Catalonia (Spain), the Open
University of the Netherlands and the University of Agder (Norway) and led
by the Free Knowledge Institute (FKI), the FTA has received the support from
the EC's Lifelong Learning Programme to set up an international educational
programme on Free Software. The courses are taught completely online in a
virtual campus based on the Campus Project interoperability framework.

Following the Open Educational Resources movement, all learning materials
are freely available through the Internet. The use of Free Software (also
referred to as Open Source software or Libre Software) is rapidly expanding
in governmental and private organisations. However, still only a limited
number of ICT professionals, teachers and decision makers have sufficient
knowledge and expertise in these new fields. The Free Technology Academy
aims to address this gap by providing high level courses that fit into
larger Master Programmes at the participating universities.

* More information: http://www.ftacademy.org
* Contact information: contact at ftacademy.org
* Digital version: http://ftacademy.eu/announce/9





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Free Knowledge Institute | Unlocking the Knowledge Society
http://freeknowledge.eu/

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http://ftacademy.org/




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