On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 11:24, Adam wrote:
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 19:39:42 +0000 John Ingleby
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