On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 11:24, Adam wrote:
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 19:39:42 +0000 John Ingleby <john@coronet.co.uk> wrote:
Most newsworthy were Prof Hargreaves' endorsement of the open source
Did anyone happen to keep a copy of Hargreave's powerpoint presentation? I think I'd be able to cobble notes together with that as a prompt. If so, can it be made available over the net (with his permission)?
Can we chip our notes in on the wiki? Anyone going to break the ice and start, or is a more formal method preferred?
Yvonne is currently getting permission off all the speakers to use their presentations. As soon as this is done I can send you them - I have all of them apart from the SchoolTool one on my laptop. If you will volunteer (and anyone else) to do the necessary on the Wiki it would be 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. -- ian <ian.lynch2@ntlworld.com>