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→Level 2: Teaching the Use of Open Source Software
This level includes initiatives such as [http://laptop.org/ OLPC], [http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page K12LTSP], and the [[:fedora:Features/EducationMathSpin|Fedora Education Math spin]], which use Open Source educational software to teach other subjects, such as Mathematics or Media Arts.
= Level 2: Teaching and Studying the Use of Open Source Software =
Teaching students how to use Open Source software in various ways, and studying Open Source.
== 2A: Non-technical Use of Open Source Software ==
Some Open Source software is used in very technical ways that require integration, configuration, and testing. This can range from using an Open Source operating system (such as a [http://fedoraproject.org Linux] or [http://freebsd.org BSD] distribution) to controlling devices ([http://jmri.sourceforge.net/ model trains) or setting up enterprise IT (using [http://jboss.org JBOSS], [http://www.apache.org Apache], [http://amqp.org AMQP], and so forth). The distinction between level 2A and 2B is that users in level 2B have a greater understanding of what the software does, and generally configure it to perform a specific task or operate in a specific configuration.
== 2C: Studying Open Source ==
Open Source communities are interesting to those performing anthropological, social, linguistic, economic, and technical studies, due to the global, real-time nature of the collaboration that takes place within them (and the synthetic culture therefore produced) as well as the unique economic and technical frameworks employed by these communities.
= Level 3: Working Within an Open Source Community =
Teaching students how to contribute to and work within an Open Source project, collaborating with other community members on development, support, testing, documentation, bugfixing, and other collective tasks. This is the "Open" in Open Source.
