On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 03:10 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
More on universities; Barriers to change.
If you search these archives (i.e. go back to December of last year to January of this year), you'll realise there is a thread there that deals with some of the issues I have had in getting Linux used within Universities.
Ah - thanks for that. The situation seems quite depressing :-( When my contemporaries went off to college, *nix was the default choice. What subject are you reading, and at which university?
This also has an impact on the barriers to change. But you will need to supply more information about just what it is you want to know before I start rambling.
Apparently LXF readers want to know the buying practices of UK educational institutions; their patterns of OS and software use; what pressures they are under; and what budget restrictions; how they are grouped (in a university's case, whether policy is set across depts, or across the entire institution); what's the budget; what versions of MS windows and office are still in use? For the most part, I think they may have to do without a little of this information ;-) I'm also interested in what needs to be done to change things? Where can influence be exerted? What can individuals do? The example of the BCS's blessing from the above-mentioned thread was very interesting.
You asked on this list; the reply hence stays on this list. Oh, and would you mind not cross-posting your email like this to different mailing-lists?
My bad - when you are in a hurry, tired, and have too much to do, you often break something. In this case it was netiquette - but as she has had much protection and cossetting from me over the years, I am sure netiquette will forgive me just this once ;^) Regards, - Richard