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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] article on GNU/Linux in schools and universities
- From: Richard Smedley <richard.smedley03@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:27:49 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <1144834946.818.50.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
> > 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
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