Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Project LULA

Linux para Universidades Latinoamericanas

The LULA project has as objective to create a Linux distribution with the educational software applications with Open Source used in latinamerican universities.


It is a coordinated initiative by the Telefónica Chair at the Extremadura University, with collaboration from: Santa María Federal University (Brasil), Guadalajara University (Mexico), National Cordoba University (Argentina), Entre Rios National University (Argentina), La Plata National University (Argentina), Porto University (Portugal), and Santiago Chile University (Chile).

To create the Linux distribution, professors in these universities will choose the educational software build with Open Source they use for their practical and theoretical courses. The Teléfonica Chair of Extremadura University will collect these software packages and will study their compatibility and relevance to be included in the distribution.

This distribution could be used free of cost by any user. The faculty in the participating institutions, and those that join the project later, will point to the educational software they wish to incorporate to the distribution. One of this initiative objectives is to facilitate the integration of different countries educational software , and the exchange of educational materials between universities. Furthermore, it will show to university professors the software applications their colleagues are using in their coursework.

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