Most demonstrations are centered on free-open resources (software and data) developed for Linux and MS-Windows (and often MacOS). These resources can be easily found on the following sites:
- Edubuntu (http://edubuntu.org/): educational applications, tools, content, and themes for the Ubuntu distribution of GNU/Linux.
- Framasoft (http://www.framasoft.net) : Catalog of free-open software and resources.
- Ofset (http://blog.ofset.org/) = Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching : Freeduc catalog of teaching software organized by subjects with a live-CD for their valuation.
- Plume (http://www.projet-plume.org/en/) : Promoting economicaL, Useful and Maintained softwarE, for the Higher Education and the research community.
- SugarLabs (http://www.sugarlabs.org/) : learning software for Chidren, developed for the OLPC (http://laptop.org/en/laptop/index.shtml) project.
The following demonstrations can be presented:
- An XO laptop developed by MIT, then by the OLPC foundation (One Laptop Per Child project) : brochures and flyers (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Brochures_and_flyers), site (http://olpc.com/) and wiki (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki). These demonstrations emphasize activities for scientific vulgarization:
- Measure (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure) : To understand through a visual and statistical representation of physical phenomena.
- Pippy (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pippy) : Teaches Python programming by providing access to Python code samples and a fully interactive Python interpreter.
- Ruler (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ruler) : Provides an accessible tool to measure screen-sized objects.
- TurtleArtActivity (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Turtle_Art) : A programming language similar to Logo.
- A laptop with 3 systems: Edubuntu (http://edubuntu.org/), Mandriva (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva) and Windows-XP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP).
- A laptop with free-open software for MS-Windows : OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/), FireFox (http://www.mozilla.org), EPI software (http://www.framasoft.net/article2667.html) under the GPL licence and free-open scientific software like the R language (http://www.r-project.org/) or Scilab (http://www.scilab.org/). Free-open resources are also presented : Wikipedia (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page), e-books (http://www.gutenberg.org/)... and the European Constitution (http://www.guerby.org/) !
Home pages are stored on the laptop for off-line demonstrations but an Internet connexion is preferable.
- Live CDs with GNU-Linux : Freeduc, Kaella (http://www.linux-azur.org) or Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/).
- Books on partially or completely free-open software and resources (see the above figure).