On Friday 25 October 2002 5:35 pm, Christopher Dawkins wrote:
Ideally it ought to be in Linux, but if we want to convince the Windows users that there are lots of schools out there actually using Linux then it will probably have to be in a form that they can easily access eg Outlook/Access.
What a terrible idea. Outlook/Access! That's two things we just don't have here (though I do know some people here use Outlook, they're the ones that get viruses).
:)
The database could be in MySQL/PostgresSQL and run on Linux and Apache and then any machine with a web browser can access it.
Exactly.
+1
It would need to include: Name of School, Type of School, Address, Name of Head, Name of ICT Co-ordinator, Tel No, Fax, Email and Website.
Address? Name of Head? Neither seem very useful ....
Name of ICT co-ordinator? Yes, but make it name of person responsible, who is not necessarily the ICT co-ordinator.
Fax? What's that?
Why not just email and website? These are all one needs to find out information and make contact.
But it needs "Operating Systems" and "Applications" for a start, and maybe some indication of the percentage of usage of each OS at server & client level (we have six OS's here). But that might be too much form-filling, so a brief description might be better.
A system was set up under the osie banner by Michael Brown two years ago. It attracted about five entries, and is now inaccessible.
To get a good block of entries, you need to have a few suppliers such as Suse, Fensystems, Red Hat, IRL etc ask their customers to allow them to be listed.
OK, remind me what we are trying to do, get a list of people who are interested in linux or have already installed ? You can add fields to the prototype on line: http://www.paneris.org/schools/org.melati.admin.Admin/schools/Main (You may need to use username _administrator_ password FIXME cheers timp