Last thursday various people of the Linux User Group Bern, WilhelmTux and other organisations hold an information event at the University of Bern about the use of Open Source Software (OSS) in education. Due to the large IT project (8.6 million Swiss francs) the city of Bern is planning, we felt it necessary to inform politicians about today’s and tomorrow’s possibilities of OSS. With several demos and case studies of realized Linux projects in schools the speakers convinced the 9 city councils of various parties (GFL, SP and EVP). Now contacts have been made between politicians and IT people so there will be more information campaigns going on in the next week to make the vision possible: The city of Bern is pioneering in IT education by introducing Linux and other Open Source Software on about 1000 school computers!