"The Classroom of the Future"
Last night I attended a DfEE/NGfL meeting entitled "The Classroom of the Future" as a Governor of our local Primary School. This is one of a series of meeting. It was an interesting meeting but seemed mainly targeted at secondary schools. However, there were only four exhibitors; BECTA, BBC, BT and Microsoft. There was no evidence of Open Source even when I questioned the BECTa representative. Was SuSE invited to attend this? It Doesn't look like it from the list of exhibitors in the back of the glossy handout. Is it worth volunteering? I think there are more to come. Cheers Paul
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Paul Harris wrote:
Last night I attended a DfEE/NGfL meeting entitled "The Classroom of the Future" as a Governor of our local Primary School. This is one of a series of meeting. It was an interesting meeting but seemed mainly targeted at secondary schools. However, there were only four exhibitors; BECTA, BBC, BT and Microsoft. There was no evidence of Open Source even when I questioned the BECTa representative. Was SuSE invited to attend this? It Doesn't look like it from the list of exhibitors in the back of the glossy handout. Is it worth volunteering? I think there are more to come.
Don't know about SuSE, but Fen Systems definitely weren't invited. It's something we would definitely be interested in being involved with given the choice - does the brochure give a relevant contact person? Michael Brown MD, Fen Systems Ltd. http://www.fensystems.co.uk/
ho ho ho, do you think anyone from the Open Source, tier2 hardware league would have been 'invited', i think not. i'll find out what the arrangements are, but it is also an expensive thing to attend.... perhaps an alternative 'open source' roadshow would be better, i'll hire the bus if you want.... regards Malcolm On Thursday 15 February 2001 20:13, Michael Brown wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Paul Harris wrote:
Last night I attended a DfEE/NGfL meeting entitled "The Classroom of the Future" as a Governor of our local Primary School. This is one of a series of meeting. It was an interesting meeting but seemed mainly targeted at secondary schools. However, there were only four exhibitors; BECTA, BBC, BT and Microsoft. There was no evidence of Open Source even when I questioned the BECTa representative. Was SuSE invited to attend this? It Doesn't look like it from the list of exhibitors in the back of the glossy handout. Is it worth volunteering? I think there are more to come.
Don't know about SuSE, but Fen Systems definitely weren't invited. It's something we would definitely be interested in being involved with given the choice - does the brochure give a relevant contact person?
Michael Brown MD, Fen Systems Ltd. http://www.fensystems.co.uk/
-- --------------------------------------- Dr Malcolm Herbert Director, Academic Business Development Red Hat Europe t: +44 1483 734955 m: +44 7720 079845 -------------------------------------- "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer" Farmers Weekly, 1977
Michael Wills, Minister for Learning and Technology wrote the forward to the brochure and was supposed to be giving the presentation but was delayed at the House of Commons so you could try e-mailing him!. The contact for the DfEE in the list of exhibitors was Wayne Prevost Tel 0207 273 5237 (no e-mail). Copies of the brochure can be obtained from DfEE quoting ref: Classroom of the Future, Tel 020 7273 4965, Fax 020 7273 5023 and e-mail mike.biggs@dfee.gov.uk Paul Harris Chair of Governors Boroughbridge Primary School ----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Herbert" <mherbert@redhat.com> To: "Suse schools list" <suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com> Cc: "Suse schools list" <suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 8:44 PM Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] "The Classroom of the Future"
ho ho ho,
do you think anyone from the Open Source, tier2 hardware league would have been 'invited', i think not. i'll find out what the arrangements are, but
is also an expensive thing to attend....
perhaps an alternative 'open source' roadshow would be better, i'll hire
bus if you want....
regards
Malcolm
On Thursday 15 February 2001 20:13, Michael Brown wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Paul Harris wrote:
Last night I attended a DfEE/NGfL meeting entitled "The Classroom of
it the the
Future" as a Governor of our local Primary School. This is one of a series of meeting. It was an interesting meeting but seemed mainly targeted at secondary schools. However, there were only four exhibitors; BECTA, BBC, BT and Microsoft. There was no evidence of Open Source even when I questioned the BECTa representative. Was SuSE invited to attend this? It Doesn't look like it from the list of exhibitors in the back of the glossy handout. Is it worth volunteering? I think there are more to come.
Don't know about SuSE, but Fen Systems definitely weren't invited. It's something we would definitely be interested in being involved with given the choice - does the brochure give a relevant contact person?
Michael Brown MD, Fen Systems Ltd. http://www.fensystems.co.uk/
-- --------------------------------------- Dr Malcolm Herbert Director, Academic Business Development Red Hat Europe t: +44 1483 734955 m: +44 7720 079845 -------------------------------------- "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer" Farmers Weekly, 1977
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