Mark Osborne from Albany Senior High School in NZ joins us to talk about the way his school leverages the power of Open Source software, cloud computing and hosted servers. We are also joined by Australian teachers Roland Gesthuizen and Peter Ruwoldt.

• Albany Senior High School – ashs.school.nz/
• Mark’s Blog – theopensourceschool.blogspot.com/
• Roland’s Blog – plakboek.livejournal.com/
• Peter’s Blog – waraku.blogspot.com/

Other resources mentioned in the podcast

• The OpenDisc - http://www.theopendisc.com/
• Software Freedom Day – Annual international event to celebrate free software and help communities to become aware and better informed.  Look for an event near you or host one of your own. – This year it is on 18SEP2010 - http://softwarefreedomday.org/
• Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com/
• Open Office - http://www.openoffice.org/
• Richard Stallman on why schools should exclusively use free software - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html

Enjoy!  Comments welcome as always.

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