On Monday 01 January 2007 12:12, garry saddington wrote:
You and I seem to be on a different thought process about these programs.
I do not think that you fully understand where I am coming from. I am well aware of the nature of all these types of programs, but teachers must 'try before they buy' as it were. If you are going to tell them that they need to have a full Linux install before they can test (I know you can always have a web based demo but these are usually, in my opinion, much less than optimal at demonstrating the full potential of the software) any programs in-house, then you are going to put many off even testing the product. If they can download, install and test the software on their teacher's laptop you will have a much better chance of persuading them to install a production server.
how are they less impressive? if a program is web based, it's web based.
There are all web based programs and therefore the host makes no difference. The staff and students in my schools are still mostly on M$ machines and until I have a decent Client for Netware, are going to stay that way. What I want to affect is the way schools "run" there records keeping operations, If we can build an OpenSource admin suite, and the parts already exist,
If you are in USA? have you tried Open Admin for schools? http://richtech.ca/openadmin/ Or are you looking for more than this?
I have looked at this and it is nice, I am looking to use a COTS (common off the shelf) approach to building a hybrid suite. To make this suite easier to manage I would like to use a common programming language and common DB Centre is working on a MySQL port that would eliminate the last inconsistency. all will be LAMP products.
Your comments seem to be generated from an experience of trying to move the desktop to quickly,
On the contrary we have been running Linux on the desktop for four years and recently we went totally Linux everywhere and all ICT teaching has been on Linux for three years. When I speak of Linux uptake in schools I am speaking about experiences of other schools not my own. We use Zope and Plone for Intranet/Learning platform and our MIS(SIS) has been developed by myself using Zope, Postgres,Apache and many other smaller pieces of supporting software and is fully English CBDS compliant. I will be releasing it soon, but when I do there will be a Windows version and a Linux version for the reasons I have already espoused.
are you working with SchoolTool? Would you like to distribute it with full support of an OS. We can help you optimize it for OpenSUSE.
My comments are largely through despair at how intransigent some so called intelligent people can be! Regards Garry Saddington Skegness Grammar School, England -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-edu+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-edu+help@opensuse.org