What we need is a database of schools using Linux both to persuade people that there is a market out there, and also to be able to find schools who would be willing to trial new (Linux) products.
This is an existing lug.org.uk project, which a student is trying to finish before going back to University.
It was also a Fensystems project, a year or two ago under the osie (Open Systems in Education) banner. The problem lies in getting good info from schools, many of whom are beavering away in isolation. Maybe a further OSS push at BETT is the way forwards - a strong degree of co-ordination betwen
Problem is if someone starts to push back...
the different OSS stands. None have yet made quite the same impression as the RM or Microsoft stands. (Thank goodness!). But if every stand
The Microsoft stand does not always make a good impression, at least IMHO.
featuring OSS could post the same map featuring all the other relevant stands - well, that might show how small mobile brainy flexible adaptable cooperative mammal-like creatures (Bother! Penguins aren't mammals!) can compete with huge lumbering dinosaurs.
Birds are considered to be evolved from the therapod group of dinosaurs. (Which are neither huge and lumbering or cute and cuddly...) -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763