[ubuntu-za] Website for FOSS in Schools

[William Walter Kinghorn]

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 Open source - opens learning
Why open source makes sense for education

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From: Hannes Coetzee [scorpking at scorpking.za.org]
Sent: 24 March 2009 21:21
To: William Walter Kinghorn
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Website for FOSS in Schools

Hi William

Thanks for your mail. I'll update the wiki in the next day or two.

Regards
Hannes
> Hi Hannes,
>
> Can you add a documentation section
>
> And add these 2 URLs to it
>
> Ubuntu Installation Guide : https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/installation-guide/i386/index.html
>
> GraphicalInstall : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall
>
> I had a look at the SchoolProject page, but could not decide where to put it.
>
> Just another note about some of the e-mails : We have to do something, we don't have funding, so this is the only way that we can proceed to start to do something. If we don't do something, then we have gained nothing, if we try something, and we have 50% success rate, that is a lot more than we have now.
>
> We need to let people know what is out there, for us it is Ubuntu and the community that surrounds it.
>
> The problem is that not many people know that Linux can work for them, because the Microsoft people tell them that it can't do the job, it is our job to prove them wrong, and walking into a school and saying that they have to pay X amount and be retrained, is not going to change them, as they already have a system in place that "works".
>
> That being said, once schools, and home users have started using the Ubuntu stuff, then we can create a business model. As more users come to Linux, so more people will need to make a full time job of it, and support the users, both schools and home users, from this more businesses will start using Linux as it is being used at schools and at home, to a certain extent this is how Microsoft did it, MSDos was being used at home, so business adopted because they did not need to train them for dos. this is possibly one reason why Dos became prominent, as well as the price.
>
> I hope I explained this well enough
>
> William
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Hannes Coetzee [scorpking at scorpking.za.org]
> Sent: 23 March 2009 21:48
> To: hilton at inkululeko.co.za; Ubuntu South African Local Community
> Subject: [ubuntu-za] Website for FOSS in Schools
>
> Greetings everyone
>
> A big thank you to everyone that added info to the school wiki page.
> Another rather big problem is support. As someone mentioned to the wiki
> page, if there are no support for schools this whole thing will fail.
> I've seen a few school labs gather dust because there's no support. The
> only way I see out of this one is a support website (maybe someone else
> have another option that we can consider?). Should we decide to put up a
> support website, then there will be more things to consider.
>
> What will the site consist of and what info will go onto the website?
> What CMS system will work best for such a site and will it be able to
> handle future expansions?
> What will be the easiest way to maintain the site?
> What would schools possibly want to see on the site?
> What would be the best way to organize support for schools in a central
> location?
>
> Please read the support section on
> http://wiki.ubuntu-za.org/SchoolProject to see what has been covered so
> far. Please share your ideas and experiences so we can decide on the
> best support system for schools. It should be effective and easy for
> schools to use and not put too much strain on anyone.
>
> Regards
> Hannes
>
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