FUSS is a complete GNU/Linux solution (server, client and desktop/standalone) based on Debian for managing an educational network.

It is at the same time also a digital sustainability project that since 2005 allows students and teachers to use at home the same IT tools installed at school, freely and at no cost.

Economia circolare a scuola

L'IISS Galilei contribuisce a pieno titolo al progetto SchoolSwap

PC con FUSS 12 ricondizionato dall'IISS Galilei

Sono già 20 i PC che l’Istituto Superiore “G. Galilei” ha fornito ai propri studenti. Ecco un esempio concreto di economia circolare e sostenibilità digitale attuato dall’istituto bolzanino il quale, anziché conferire in discarica PC ancora funzionanti - come molte realtà pubbliche e private oggigiorno purtroppo fanno - ha preferito pulirli e ricondizionarli per poi donarli ai propri studenti.

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FUSS is a Digital Public Good

Today the project received the recognition by the DPGA

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Today, the FUSS Project was added to the Digital Public Goods Alliance DPG Registry. The goal of the DPGA and its registry is to promote digital public goods in order to create a more equitable world. Being recognised as a DPG increases the visibility, support for, and prominence of open projects that have the potential to tackle global challenges. To become a digital public good, all projects are required to meet the DPG Standard to ensure that projects truly encapsulate open source principles.

For us, being recognised as a digital public good - defined as open source software, open data, open AI models, open standards, and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable laws and best practices, do no harm, and help attain the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) - means confirming our effort in contributing with our project not only to SDG 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure) but also to a Democratic Digitalization goal that we see as the missing 18th SDG.

For any inquiries on the FUSS Project please find our contacts in the upper part of the webpage. For more information on the Digital Public Goods Alliance please reach out to hello@digitalpublicgoods.net.

The Digital Public Goods Alliance is a multi-stakeholder initiative endorsed by the United Nations Secretary-General, working to accelerate the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods.

Workshop: Getting started with XMPP chat and Snikket

A step by step course on how to install and use your own FOSS chat system

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Dashamir Hoxha, member of the Technical Team of the LUGBZ and Roberto Resoli, president of the LinuxTrent were the distinguished speakers of this quite interesting workshop targeted at both technicians and end users. This event was jointly organized by the FUSS Project, the LUGBZ and the LinuxTrent.

Dashamir, connected via BBB-videoconference from Albania and Roberto, in presence at the seminar room of the “Intendenza Scolastica Italiana” (Italian School Board) in Bolzano-Bozen started introducing XMPP and its features, describing why it is better than its alternatives. They concentrate on the Snikket project philosophy and its peculiarities, both on client and server side.

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CAD e GDPR, casi di successo a km 0

Soluzioni reali a confronto

Programma Evento Privacy Scuole Friuli Venezia Giulia

Su richiesta dei responsabili della protezione dei dati (DPO) in difficoltà nello svolgere le obbligatorie valutazioni di impatto (DPIA) per i dirigenti scolastici che hanno scelto google e microsoft, nascono una serie di eventi ad hoc, in molte regioni, che consentono al personale preposto di conoscere gli aspetti legali, tecnici e le soluzioni in uso presso scuole e aziende su tutto il territorio italiano.

Le soluzioni open source per la didattica digitale, cui le PA, scuole pubbliche comprese, devono dare la priorità a norma dell’art. 68 del CAD, opportunamente integrate, sono una valida alternativa alle soluzioni proprietarie delle Big Tech e garantiscono il diritto alla riservatezza dei minori in quanto applicano i principi di privacy by design e by default.

Il 17 luglio 2023 dalle 16:45 alle 19:30 si terrà un nuovo evento informativo online per i dirigenti ed i docenti del Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Seguono il programma dell’evento, gli slide e la registrazione del seminario.

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PNRR e Scuola 5.0. Consigli per investimenti rispettosi di CAD e GDPR.

Incontro con le scuole della Provincia di Vicenza

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Sustainabiity - Digitale Nachhaltigkeit

L’8 giugno 2023 si è tenuto un incontro informativo per i dirigenti ed i docenti di circa 150 scuole della Provincia di Vicenza su gentile invito del Provveditorato di Vicenza.

Considerata la situzione decisamente critica nella quale le scuole del territorio nazionale si trovano a causa delle soluzioni in cloud adottate nel corso degli ultimi tre anni in quanto non a norma del GDPR, urge la necessità di informare le scuole su quali siano le alternative viabili in grado di tutelare efficacemente i dati di alunni e docenti. Questo il sommario ed il programma dell’incontro (corredato da slide e video) che si è tenuto di pomeriggio dalle 17:00 alle 19:00.

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Debian 12 'bookworm' and FUSS 12

On June 10th the 12th release of Debian and FUSS will be celebrated at SPAZIO77

Preparations for celebrating the planned release on Saturday June 10th of Debian 12 “bookworm” are in full swing. Currently Debian Bookworm Release Parties are planned in 3 continents: Bolivia and Brazil; Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Portugal; and in Iran. See https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyBookworm.

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Event at the European Parliament

Proposal for a Sovereign and Democratic Digitalisation of Europe

Proposal for a Sovereign and Democratic Digitalisation of Europe

Framework for a coalition’s action #DemocraticDigitalisation

Wednesday May 31st, from 13:00 - 15:00PM European Parliament (Brussels), Room: Spinelli 5E1

Starting from the report Proposal for a Sovereign and Democratic Digitalisation of Europe, the event wants to propose a framework to promote concrete actions and policies to redefine the foundations of EU digital transformation towards a solid digital rights-centred approach.

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