Re: AW: Education strategy

Wilfried Römer writes:
 > Have a look at www.openwebschool.de (the Union Jack leads you to the English pages). Until now this site is basically German with the overview pages translated to English. It should be easy to incorporate other languages.
 > 
well it seems to me that your annouce is somewhat off-list, unless you
can get this organization www.openwebschool.de to replace "open
source" by "free software". You cannot ask us to support people
confusing the public with "open source" !
 
Opposite to that, I'd like to mention again here our project
	 http://libresoftware-educ.org
Basically a database of schools with free software installed, but
there has been a documentation  effort too. Maybe you could motivate
some German teachers to take their part
 
 > Wilfried Roemer
 > 
 > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
 > Von:	Ian Lynch [SMTP:[email protected]]
 > Gesendet am:	Dienstag, 7. Mai 2002 09:49
 > An:	[email protected]
 > Betreff:	Education strategy
 > 
 > Has anyone else got a strategy for developing the use of free software in 
 > education in their country? It strikes me that expecting Governments to take 
 > the initiative when there are apparently few test sites, is at best going to 
 > take a long time. In England, (Scotland has a completely different system so 
 > its not sensible to talk about UK education) there are government targeted 
 > funding initiatives involving ICT that we can use to get some significant 
 > presence. So far we have two 30 station networks in primary schools and 
 > another 5 or 6 in the pipeline. We have just installed a 120 station network 
 > in a City Learning Centre, one of the Government flagship projects with high 
 > profile. Once we get sufficient sites running satisfactorily we can then go 
 > to other schools, local and national government and say look it works. 
 > Without a number of successful and working desktop sites, few people are 
 > going to take the risk. The main problem is inability to run Windows based 
 > education software - WINE is a possibility but we have to get hold of the 
 > software to test and testing takes time. For the time being we are 
 > concentrating on low cost thin clients to do the things that are needed 90% 
 > of the time and provide advice on covering the rest of the curriculum using 
 > existing equipment. What would be more helpful to us would be transferring 
 > some of the effort from the umpteenth word processor (most are going to use 
 > open office or StarOffice anyway) to some specific support for focussed 
 > applications for education. Getting education titles to run under WINE is a 
 > high priority but difficult for a small company.
 > 
 > In broad strategic terms, getting a good presence for free software in a 
 > market sector such as education provides a profile to show others. I believe 
 > that critical mass will be achieved by getting focus in a particular sector 
 > rather than a scattergun approach. Once established in one sector the methods 
 > can be repeated in others.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Ian Lynch
 > Education Management Consultant.
 > 
 > 
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