Hi all, Government offices in Europe already have detailed plans to move substantial parts of their (office) IT platforms from Windows to Linux, or already did this. The Bundestag, which is the German parliament, is a good example; they already moved their servers to Linux, and are now working on their desktops to move these too. I thought some other European countries also had plan, including my country. Schools are a different story. Here in the Netherlands, where I come from, most teachers in primary and secondary education are computer illiterates. They weren't trained to use computers in their daily practice, and most of them hardly know how to work with Windows, left alone Linux. The younger generation of teachers start using computers as a new method of teaching children. But it still is more for fun than it adds up to their knowledge. Hope this respons give you people in the US (and elsewhere on this globe) an idea of what's happening here in Europe. Robert Mulder.
From: Andrew Choens
To: suse-schools-usa@suse.com Subject: [suse-schools-usa] Whoa Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:30:10 -0400 Very interesting. I signed up for this several months back and forgot all about it. This is definitely one low traffic list.
However, there seem to be people on the silly thing. Perhaps we should actually do something and then we could talk about it. (Forgive me, I'm a community organizer, this is what I do.) I signed up for this list thinking I could hear about the efforts to move Linux into schools. It is my rarely humble opinion, that in order for Linux to become accepted, there must be a broad user base that is MORE comfortable with Linux and it's inherent strength/flexibility that with Windows. Schools seem to be an ideal tool to reach this end.
I'm also interested in the idea of moving Linux into the non-profit sector. These seem to be two sectors of our society that are traditionally strapped for cash that could really benefit from this OS.
So, having said all of this to the choir, does anyone know about any ongoing efforts to do any of this? I would be very interested in hearing about this.
Peace --andy
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