Hi all,
my name is James Spedding and I work for a unit called RDIU in Anglia
Polytechnic University. One area we are working is to provide solutions to
school using linux instead of other proprietory software (you know what I
mean!). At the moment we are focussing on providing file-serving and backup
on one box, but soon we hope to expand to providing help for other services
as people might want them. I am interested in raising the profile of linux
in schools (as you all are), sharing information and helping out where I
can.
We also run training courses for teachers, linux users and sysadmins. I
think Linux is the way forward for educational establishments and at the
moment it feels like the lack of support and knowledge might be the limiting
factor to the take up of open source OS's.
So really that's my question - at the risk of repeating previous threads -
what do you think is limiting the rollout of what is a better system into
all schools? lack of support, lack of appropriate software, poor
profile......
James