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Terry Hill wrote:
This is what dfey is partly doing, from within schools young people can campaign toget OSS in to schools, which is one of the reasons as the membership goes up, and we perhaps have several members from one school the pressure can buildOn 3 February 2010 20:28, james kilty <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 18:36 +0000, Terry Hill wrote:Where Linux appears to me to be making good headway is with governments and official bodies. We're hearing of m$ closed source software being dropped in such places in favour of software with a real audit path. Colleges and local government need to be encouraged to reap the rewards open source can offer.And schools need to make Linux available to all, with lessons in hands on for all at some stage. I may try again with my attempts to influence local shools in west Cornwall. I only had one response the last time, from a MS specialist/sponsored school at that.Good luck with it James, are there any others here with the knowledge and inclination to make similar efforts? Perhaps if there's enough of you, you could form a mini "pressure group" of sorts that could offer more direct help to make the move. And concentrate on one school at a time, local government etc. Just a thought really...
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