Promoting Open Source in Schools and training

[paul sutton]

I think thats the problem we have in England,  I am hoping to get a job 
that will put me in a positon to try things out,  and perhaps push open 
source (not Linux on the desktop in the first instance) and find out 
what schools need in the UK,  When I come over to Toronto Next year, it 
will be a chance to discuss things at meetings and we can swap ideas.


http://www.osv.org.au/

catalogue quite big but has lots of nice software in there that could be 
useful to schools, and most of it runs on either Linux or windows,   I 
guess the only real way to use some of the normal teaching software is 
to use wine,  which is still in development,  and can be slow even on a 
duron 1600, 

One thing that is interesting is the site http://www.traininghott.com/ 
which is one a local training center,  while it offers LPI etc,  I think 
what is needed is something that covers the basics,  e.g KDE etc,  from 
a normal user perspective,  also something that ideally costs <$100,  or 
even better <$50,  

Regarding course costs this is where we need to be careful regarding TCO 
issues. Training costs are in there with this.

Paul


Igor Denisov wrote:

>Yes, it is possible to overhaul the entire school board to use thin clients.
>And, once you replace the aging 10 Mbit switches and hubs throughout
>the schools, you could probably even have all of TDSB's clients
>powered by a few fast servers.
>
>The problem is the lack of native versions of the software schools
>want to use (substitutions / equivalent software will not go over well
>with the teachers, especially when you've bought textbooks teaching
>how to use MS Word, not O.O.org).
>The school board couldn't care less what OS everything runs on, just
>as long as Millie's Math House, Geometer's Sketchpad and Vernier Labs
>probeware work.
>
>Get the software to run, show the performance/price/TCO advantage, get
>the teachers into summer time workshops to learn the new system, and
>Linux will be used.
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