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Aaron Trevena wrote: >The open schools alliance is working to get Becta, DFES et al to sort >their acts out and allow open source and small business to compete >fairly for education - getting a much better deal for schools and >colleges, and better IT for their pupils. > >http://www.openschoolsalliance.org/ > >worth supporting and getting your local school to look into working with them. > >Cheers, > >A. > > > While I support the aims and aspirations of the Open Schools Alliance whole heartedly, my experience of trying to get schools to try open source or free software as an alternative has met with limited sucess, unless of course you count my pet projects in developing nations where they are only too happy to try something that gives them control over their future........ I have offered to talk and demonstrate free software to my son's primary school, I get smiles and nods and even "that might be a good idea" and then hear nothing. The problem is that, one is dismissed as a one man band "crank boffin" before you have even started, well they have a point I suppose .......... I do wonder how many schools will be suckered into adopting vista as their new platform ....... shudder ........ Oh well keep trying ... keep smiling ...... Tom. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html