Seconded! SchoolForge UK would be a great place to front the work of promoting Open Source in UK schools. Those in favour? Against? John Ingleby ************ On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 13:12, Chris Puttick wrote:
A suggestion:
There is an international organisation called SchoolForge that aims to represent organisations, including companies, "...that advocate, use, and develop open resources for primary and secondary education.". The organisers recently suggested the creation local "chapters" for national use that could be more focussed on their individual country's needs, and sign up those that may not see affiliation to an international body as worthwhile.
A SchoolForge UK seems an ideal, all-inclusive front for those in the UK working with (and on!) open source solutions in school, and could host the wiki, useful links, equivalence tables for UK Linux/MS school software, NC linked teaching resources, lesson plans, etc., etc. and simultaneously provides an excellent press focus for open source in education developments.
Setup time could be minutes and an official press launch could be in time for the summer term.
Comments?
Regards
Chris
PS SuSE have always been happy to have none-SuSE users on the list - they don't even try and sell to those on it...