[education-wg] List of Education FOSS projects

[Don Davis]

Is there a checklist/ organization keeping track of needed/ in progress 
FOSS for education projects? There are the projects on sourceforge, but 
that is more of a random medley of education related programs not 
cohesively listed.

I thought of this because I was contemplating how easy it might be to 
code a FOSS program for communication with special needs students.

In special education, there is a program that uses simple stick figures 
to communicate with special needs students. Each license is $400-$800. 
Rewriting a FOSS implementation of this should not be hard. The largest 
yet easiest part would be creating a large library of copyleft images 
available for use in the program. 12 year olds on Gimp could do this. A 
group of 12-15 teenagers could crank out a lot of images in a one week 
half day summer school project. (The images could also be used in ESL 
classrooms.)