Progress creating an opensource IT stack for schools in The Netherlands
summary
Project Fair Digital Education builds a complete open source school IT stack and demonstrates it in pilots: one primary school runs a full stack using a Linux distro (Manjaro), Nextcloud, email, a pupil administration like Gibbon/Alexis and a single sign-on dashboard, another pilot reverts to Microsoft after a director change, and a combined school asks for Chromebook liberation. GDPR data processing agreements prove legally insufficient because extra services and required setting changes aren’t practical. A demo and wider rollouts are underway, and reused liberated Chromebooks extend device life.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to Fair Digital Education
- 2:08Problems with big tech in schools
- 6:04Dutch school system opportunities
- 7:30Open source IT stack components
- 8:13Current pilot status and challenges
- 9:21Next steps and demo plans
- 12:33Q&A with audience
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