1. By Mark D’Sa Web Addresses: http://www.schoolforge.net/

2. What is the main purpose of the project? The Purpose of Schoolforge "Schoolforge's mission is to unify independent organizations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for primary and secondary education. Schoolforge is intended to empower member organizations to make open educational resources more effective, efficient, and ubiquitous by enhancing communication, sharing resources, and increasing the transparency of development. Schoolforge members advocate the use of open source and free software, open texts and lessons, and open curricula for the advancement of education and the betterment of humankind."

3. If the main purpose of the project is to produce software, what license is used to distribute the software? "Schoolforge's mission is to unify independent organizations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for primary and secondary education. Schoolforge is intended to empower member organizations to make open educational resources more effective, efficient, and ubiquitous by enhancing communication, sharing resources, and increasing the transparency of development. Schoolforge members advocate the use of open source and free software, open texts and lessons, and open curricula for the advancement of education and the betterment of humankind."

4. When was the project set up? It was set up in 2003 to improve schools and collages with free open resources.The current chair members are Richard Rothwell and Jo Harris.

5. Where does the project get its resources? The project is an open resource meaning anyone can upload or edit the resources.

6. Has the project any competitors? There are a few other rival brands in the same field, e.g. Cap town declaration (www.capetowndeclaration.org), organisation of economic c-operation and development’s OER study (www.oecd.org)

7. What is the project’s advantages over its competitors? The program offered by this company can be run on other operating systems. E.g. Linux Windows, Linux Windows Mac OSX, Linux.

8. How easy is it to contribute to the project? The project is an open resource meaning anyone can upload or edit the resources. Our focus is to provide high quality, reusable, and effective resources to the education community. In order to achieve this, the following guidelines must be applied to content submissions