<p dir="ltr">What kind of support a primary school lab might require? For offices makes sense.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Lugm and Ubuntu Mauritius could help in that. I don't know. This gotta start somewhere. Else Linux will just be kept mentioning and Microsoft licenses would get bought. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 20 May 2015 10:20, "Ish Sookun" <<a href="mailto:ish@hacklog.in">ish@hacklog.in</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">Hello Nayar,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Nayar Joolfoo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nayar@joolfoo.com" target="_blank">nayar@joolfoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Do you guys think the new Technology minister would pay heed to install Ubuntu with Libreoffice in primary schools? Atleast for new schools?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">The Minister would want to see stable projects with good support. In the past, the Ministry of Education opted only for proprietary software due to support that is easily available from local companies. How many local companies support FOSS? Nada. There is not even one local company that offers enterprise-class support for FOSS applications on the desktop. The Ministry would want this.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Another way would be for the local community to show the growth & demand for FOSS. If the software needs can be auto-supported by the local community, then yes, maybe that would push the Minister to consider Ubuntu & LibreOffice for primary schools.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">The Ministry of Technology, Communication & Innovation cited its intention to adopt FOSS based on the worldwide trend. There is no strong policy yet neither any commitment.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Regards,</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Ish Sookun</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">- Geek by birth, Linux by choice.</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">- I blog at HACKLOG.in.</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><a href="https://twitter.com/IshSookun" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/IshSookun</a> ^^ Do you tweet?</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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