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On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 20:40 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > I'd say as an alternative to Dreamweaver maybe NVU or Kompozer Is it available on Windows as well? I think NVU was. snip > Actually, wouldn't the > school be better teaching HTML/PHP/CSS or whatever is used rather than > how to use an application? I started commenting about using menus rather than a deeper approach to IT so I think this might go down well. I did give him the link Jonathan posted and will point out the dramatic drop in the % FLOSS written by 10-15 and 16-18 year olds over the years. snip > Possibly an idea for the students would be to distribute copies of The > Open Disc (www.theopendisc.com) which is a new project as far as I know > to replace The OpenCD I will certainly have a copy of openCD afer the Penzance event. > (it says more about it on TheOpenDisc.com web > site). This would certainly be a start, and a good alternative for > parents rather than paying £100 a pop for a student/teacher copy of MS > Office. It is always my intention to promote Free Software as a first step and Linux as the second obvious one. However, starting with A-Level might bring an opening to studying what it's about and sarting to learn some programming. snip > I've just given SWF exporting a try, I downloaded a PowerPoint > presentation and exported it as PDF. Using OOo?? PDF? PP slides don't show right in OOo - I just loaded some in 2.2 and images on slides were misplaced and cut off short. But it does make darned good slides. > It looks (from initial playing > around) that it supports exporting of slides but not fancy effects > although I could be wrong. I'm not sure if there are any other FLOSS > applications that export/create Flash files. It may not be Flash that's needed if they want e-books to have video or other moving images - that's what they can do, so they do it that way. Do we have FLOSS options for this? I know we have listed things like Blender, (but I have not explored it beyond looking at the opening page and menu items) and cinepaint. On the Community Centre project front, once we have a first, we have a model that can be rolled out elsewhere. Within local communities there should be plenty of the competencies needed to support this. -- james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- 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