[CoLoCo] *Stellarium makes a hit with old astronomy teacher*

[Andrew]

Neat. So, that could mean even more people that might be interested in
Ubuntu right Richard?! :)

...And, Mark, that's neat that you have a mini-lab for yearbook. :)

(This next part is just a general statement directed at anyone who wants
to reply)

I'm taking a Computer Graphics class at my school. It's pretty neat, but
we are using the Adobe "suite" of software. (Indesign, photoshop, etc..)
I'm learning a bunch of new skills, and I'm having fun. But, I'm hoping
that these skills can be easily transfered to Open Source software. I
know there are some people on this list who use the Adobe software, and
I'd like to know if anyone thinks the open source alternatives can
replace ALMOST or ALL of the features that adobe has. If not, then what
features/reasons are there to keep and use the proprietary adobe.

-Andrew

Mark Gomez wrote:
> At the school I teach at, I've set up a mini-lab with edubuntu and our
> yearbook will be produced with open-source software.  Krita and GIMP for
> photo editing, and Firefox for using Josten's system.  We'll probably
> incorporate OOo for editing articles and may dabble in Scribus for some of
> the tougher layouts.  I hope they will see that there are alternatives to
> MS.
> 
> On 9/20/07, Richard Guenther <heistooheavy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Nice job!  I am also having some success with my high school programming
>> club.  I have several students learning python and several wanting to get
>> Linux at home.  Looks like we'll be getting some not-too-old computers
>> donated for the students to put Linux on.  Just today another kid joined our
>> club who's running SUSE Linux at home.  All the software we're using is 100%
>> open-source :-).
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Andrew <keen101 at gmail.com>
>> To: Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team <ubuntu-us-co at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 7:30:23 PM
>> Subject: [CoLoCo] *Stellarium makes a hit with old astronomy teacher*
>>
>> Stellarium made a hit with my old astronomy teacher!
>>
>> Just thought I'd let everyone know that I have given a copy of the
>> OpenCD to my old astronomy teacher. I told her to check out Stellarium,
>> and perhaps Celestia. From what I gathered from her, she has not tried
>> out Celestia yet, but *LOVED* Stellarium. She said she is now going to
>> use it in her class too!
>>
>> So, yeah! I told her it was free software, so maybe she will share it
>> with other students and teachers! ...and if were lucky, perhaps she will
>> just make a copy of the OpenCD, and who knows... maybe this could help
>> the FOSS community grow in the future.
>>
>> :) Thought you would all like to hear about the apparent success.
>>
>> -Andrew
>>
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