Promoting Open Source in Schools

[Marc Lijour]

On Friday 16 December 2005 17:58, William Park wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 07:40:38PM +0000, paul sutton wrote:
> > 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,
>
> It will likely be waste of time.  Not sure how UK schools are funded,
> but here Ontario Gov funds the school.  Tough sell to begin with.  Then,
> you have to deal with IT staffs at Ministry of Education, various school
> boards, and then teachers/secretary.  None will welcome Linux, because
> Linux threatens their job security.  

Please allow some exception there ;-)

> And, you can't fire those people 
> who refuses to learn Linux.
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