Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (17 mails)

[garry saddington <garry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> You and I seem to be on a different thought process about these programs.
I do not think that you fully understand where I am coming from. I am
well aware of the nature of all these types of programs, but teachers
must 'try before they buy' as it were. If you are going to tell them
that they need to have a full Linux install before they can test (I know
you can always have a web based demo but these are usually, in my
opinion, much less than optimal at demonstrating the full potential of
the software) any programs in-house, then you are going to put many off
even testing the product. If they can download, install and test the
software on their teacher's laptop you will have a much better chance of
persuading them to install a production server. 
> There are all web based programs and therefore the host makes no difference.
> The staff and students in my schools are still mostly on M$ machines and until 
> I have a decent Client for Netware, are going to stay that way.
> What I want to affect is the way schools "run" there records keeping 
> operations, If we can build an OpenSource admin suite, and the parts already 
> exist,
If you are in USA? have you tried Open Admin for schools?
http://richtech.ca/openadmin/
Or are you looking for more than this?
> Your comments seem to be generated from an experience of trying to move the 
> desktop to quickly,
On the contrary we have been running Linux on the desktop for four years
and recently we went totally Linux everywhere and all ICT teaching has
been on Linux for three years. When I speak of Linux uptake in schools I
am speaking about experiences of other schools not my own.
We use Zope and Plone for Intranet/Learning platform and our MIS(SIS)
has been developed by myself using Zope, Postgres,Apache and many other
smaller pieces of supporting software and is fully English CBDS
compliant. I will be releasing it soon, but when I do there will be a
Windows version and a Linux version for the reasons I have already
espoused.
My comments are largely through despair at how intransigent some so
called intelligent people can be!
Regards
Garry Saddington
Skegness Grammar School, England

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