Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (89 mails)

["Mark Evans" <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> >> 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