On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:05 PM, .mau. (maurizio codogno) < wiki.mau@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, the new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#42, the Answer) is available. This time we write about a petition that Wikimedia Italia signed against the computer science tests that Italian Ministry for Education prepared, and that lean heavily towards a proprietary, closed system.

As usual a link has been added to meta, at Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Italia ; raw text of the bulletin follows below.

ciao, .mau.

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*WikimediaNews* - no. 42 - December 27, 2012 Official bulletin from Wikimedia Italia Association.

Wikimedia Italia signs the petition on the public competition for new teachers

In the Italian competition for the selection of future teachers, many of the questions prepared by the Ministry in the field of computer science refer to a single proprietary operating system and its applications. Other questions are misleading and incorrect. Wikimedia Italy believes that teachers should be prepared in an appropriate manner with respect to the reality of an evolving digital society; for this reason we have signed an intimation against the Ministry of Education, University and Research. A total of 45 organizations including Wikimedia Italia, Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), Association for Free Geographic Information (GFoss.it), Free Software Users Group Italia (FSUGItalia), Italian Linux Society (ILS), LibreItalia, Wikimedia Italy, signed the notice, as reported by our press releasehttp://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Comunicati_stampa/Concorso_Scuola_2012. Read the full text of the intimationhttp://www.softwarelibero.it/lettera-francesco-profumo(in Italian). News in brief

(Note: in this translated version only the news regarding Italy are shown)

- WikiVoyage officially started. The Italian editionhttp://it.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Pagina_principalecontains already 2,228 voices.

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