Migrating to free or open source software (FOSS) may lead to small difficulties at the beginning, because the lack of knowledge of the new tools; this is not because FOSS is difficult, but for the same reason why you are not so good at driving a new car as you were with your old one: they are two different things! For this precise reason, the LibreSchool project provides a wide training offer, targeted to people whose occupation is mainly didactics (teachers) or to who will maintain the laboratory in function.

The technical implementation of the project includes the following steps: Audit the lab hardware, evaluating its compliance to the technical requirements of the project by checking the PCs and its networking; Conclusion of pending works to fulfull technical compliance of the lab; Deployment of the server system; Deployment of the client PCs in semi-automatic mode; Quality check/test based on the technical objectives of the project. Deployment of the server, client PCs and the lab network is usually completed before the beginning of the training session, so that the lab can be available in its final form also for the training purposes.

For schools If your school wants to join the project, you may contact us by e-mail at info(at)libreschool.org. For enthusiasts Are you a parent, a teacher, a Linux enthusiast or simply a citizen that wants to give help with the project? Join the LibreSchool community by writing us your experience and describing your knowledge (development, tutorial, wiki, translations, etc); we’ll surely contact you back to give you any needed information.

Following the referendum held in October 2017 in the Region of Lombardy, the 23.000 voting machines SmartMatic VIU-800 used for electronic voting were distributed between April and May 2018 in about 1.000 schools in the Region for educational uses, with Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS installed as the operating system. Although the use of Voting Machines is not integrable with our project, they are deployed with Linux and free software; their use therefore accords with the purposes behind the project itself, which is to support schools that intend to adopt free software and open source.