On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 03:02 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
--- Ian Lynch
wrote: Maybe you should join then :-) SF-UK evolved from this list and its much more active.
I don't think so --- my time dabbling with Linux within compulsory education ended five years ago; that was little more than helping the ITC technician setup squid during my lunch hours whilst in sixth form.
I'd be a duck out of water if I joined.
Curious as to why you are on this list then since its largely the same issues. You say there is nothing that can be done to get change. Things are changing, albeit slower than we might like. The changes are hard work and nothing worth having generally comes easy. Attitudes are changing - I now have regular meetings with BECTA on behalf of the OSS community, that in itself is a significant change - but there is still a long way to go. In the words of Ghandi First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. We are at different stages of this in different applications. Apache is a winner, Linux at the desktop in schools is probably spread through the ignore, laugh and fight stages. The use of Open Standards is certainly a high profile theme with BECTA these days but there is massive inertia in the system. Even with committed people now its going to take years, there never was a quick fix option. If we just give up and say its all impossible it'll just take longer. -- Ian Lynch www.theINGOTs.org www.opendocumentfellowship.org www.schoolforge.org.uk