Promoting Open Source in Schools

[Marc Lijour]

Hi

I teach in a high-school here in Toronto and I did some advocacy work with
my board.

Apparently boards are tough, they are not very open to suggestions and
they run the business in a top-down fashion. To my knowledge the North
York board of education is better at listening and providing equipment.

All my propositions to do some extra work for free with my board were
refused :-)
(I am not even authorized to get the list of my students' usernames!)

> Hi
>
> I was wondering if anyone in the Toronto area. has been involved in
> getting open source into schools and if they could share their
> experience.  In the Uk I have just joined with some of the more local
> linux users to promote Linux in torbay, partly as we live locally so
> it's much easier to do things on a local level,  the rest of the DC lug
> are spread over quite a big distance (Well in Uk terms anyway),  I think
> in the uk no one is more than about 75 miles from the coast.
>
> As i am planning to be in the Toronto area about End of April / May I
> will hopefully be able to take part in group meetings, and possibly
> projects,  even though I am also going to be looking for work initially,
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
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