Linux in Education

[Marc Lijour]

Thank you Andrew. I guess we are only talking about FOSS and education as only 
concerned citizens which happen to be a little more educated on FOSS and its 
potential benefits.

The meeting went well tonight and I want to thank everybody who came in or who 
shared their interest with us, either physically or in this list. Tonight, we 
spent time to know about each others and to exchange on our backgrounds, 
experiences and interests. There is definitely a strong concern for good 
education in tech -we discussed problem solving as a core learning activity, 
what language and strategies are appropriate, and about software of course. 
But also there is a community willing to support the educational process and 
we heard about very interesting projects tonight.

We felt the need to meet again and we also adopted Evan's proposition to 
continue the communication online. Everybody's welcome to jump in.
If I get some time, I'd like to set up a wiki and may be somebody could take 
care of the IRC. 

Have a good night TLUGers!

On October 3, 2006 04:37 pm, you wrote:
> Hi Marc, just noticed this post on the TLUG mailing list (I am so behind
> on all of these messages!). In any case, I'm not able to make it out on
> Wednesday but I'd like to become a part of these discussions. Not sure
> if there are any issues because of the fact that I work at Novell but I
> do have a personal interest in open source that happens to align with my
> responsibilities with the school boards in Ontario which is what
> attracted me to your message in the first place. Would definitely like
> to contribute what I can and listen to other opinions as well.
>
> Andrew Chung
>
> >>> On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at  4:42 PM, in message
>
> <200609301642.35010.marc-bbkyySd1vPWsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org>, Marc Lijour <marc-bbkyySd1vPWsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
>
> On September 29, 2006 11:29 pm, Simon wrote:
> > Can you elaborate?
>
> I invite you and the interested TLUGers to gather around a table to
> discuss
> the following points.
>
> 1. what can FOSS and Linux can offer to the Ontario schools they don't
> already
> have
> 2. TCO
> 3. linux advocacy
> 4. existing educational projects involving FOSS you know about
> 5. FOSS evaluation (openBRR and similar)
>
> I believe FOSS and Linux are under represented in our government and
> educational institutions in Ontario. My purpose is to survey the FOSS
> and
> Linux offer in order to confirm or not my feelings. This is a first
> step. If
> the outcomes shows that FOSS is actually under or misrepresented, we
> could
> discuss the possible causes and remedies. But this won't happen before
> we can
> get a fair panoramic view of FOSS and what it brings to the table.
>
> In terms of software acquisition, I see 2 main criteria: features and
> price. I
> regard as fair that FOSS compete with proprietary software, and that for
> equal features the lesser priced software is the one we want. Is that
> naive?
>
> We are lucky to have very knowledgeable FOSS advocates in TO and in this
> list.
> If we could gather 3 or 4 around a table for a first round it would be
> great.
> I have some contact with the provincial government and we can see where
> this
> leads to.
>
> Any volunteer?
>
> Marc
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