On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 11:45, ian wrote: [snip]
very useful as I have a deadline coming up and not much time. I am also talking to people at Aston and Birmingham Unis about the database project. We have the support of the OpenOffice.org project and Dougal and East Hull CLC. There are sources of funding around that like this sort of cooperative endeavour so hopefully we can get this project off the ground but its going to take a bit of juggling. If anyone else is interested in a "better than Access" replacement for Access let me know -at some point it might need a separate mailing list. If we can get some small contributions from Schools as Dougal suggested it will make the case a lot stronger. If its difficult to get school money, maybe just have a fund raising event. For example, if we could get 10 large secondary schools to raise £500 each I think we could probably get a grant to get a PhD student working pretty well full time on such a project combining it with educational research in the use of databases.
Don't forget that OpenAdvantage, i.e the University of Central England, are involved, and we've actually pledged some money - feel free to use this to persuede Aston and Birmingham. As I said to Dougal and the others there may be mileage in trying to get Sun to match whatever we raise, either in money, or programmers time and other resources. Paul
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