Whiteboards

[Miles Berry]

Jane Weideman wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:15 +0100, Hugh Parker wrote:
> 
>>Hi.
>>
>>I'm keen on the idea of edubuntu - if we can save ourselves money by
>>avoiding the MS tax, that'll be welcome, as well as the better
>>software.  A major pre-requisite for us would be support for
>>whiteboards - we are equipped throughout with Hitachi Cambridge
>>whiteboards.  I'm probably too late for the first release, but I'm
>>about to have an ubuntu'd laptop, so I'd be willing to take part in
>>any test program.
>>
>>Hugh Parker
>>hcp at pobox.com
We have SmartBoards, which I would now be very loathe to do without in
my classroom. There is binary only software available from SmartTech
(see http://www.smarttech.com/support/software/unix.asp) for SuSE,
RedHat and  "Mandrake" at least. I've not tried this under Ubuntu, but I 
might be able to give it a try over the summer if that would be helpful.
I doubt that such non open source code would belong in the edubuntu
distribution, but it would be good to know how to get the boards up and
running.



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Miles Berry
Deputy Head
St Ives School Haslemere
www.stiveshaslemere.com