Hi all,
I had a meeting with the CIO at the municipality this morning.
Yesterday he had a meeting with representatives for the children and
teachers.
There has been some problems, but it all came down to one thing: They
are still using MS Office at home. They agreed that if they can lean to
use a new mobile phone in hald an hour, they can also learn to use a new
computer program. They agreed to be 'ambassadors' for the project.
We agreed that I will help the CIO to find some training material that
can be distributed.
The pupils will make a follow up soon, to point out what the problems
are. I will get that list and pass it on to the developers.
best regards,
Leif Lodahl
Per Eriksson skrev:
Hi Leif,
Thank you for the clearifications. When the meeting is done, could you
please summarize what that community can do to help in this matter?
Best Regards
Per Eriksson
leif skrev 2010-01-09 13:00:
The case is, that the CIO (Jens Kjellerup) decided to implement
OpenOffice in primary schools from last summer. This decision was
from the beginning backed up by the local politicians.
At that time, Microsoft technical manager Jasper Bojsen sendt an open
letter to the mayer, claiming that the decision would put students
from Lyngby-Taarbæk in a very poor situation, because OpenOffice.org
is not as 'feature rich' as his own product. That letter went right
back on him and the local politicians made a clear statement, that
they where backing up the decision.
The students from _one_ school have made complaints about
compatibility and lack of training and information. Some rumors says
that the complaint was actually written by a Microsoft employee, but
that can't be proven. The fact is, that the letter was by an adult
and not by a child.
It turns out that the case has nothing to do with either
OpenOffice.org or the children. It's about information and
instructions. The information given from the city hall was never
passed on to the children on that particular school. The students
didn't know, that they should use OpenOffice.org for their homework.
They where never told that they could get help from the city hall
etc. This is, what I would call a school example of what happens if
you implement OpenOffice.org
I have spoken to the CIO this week and I know him well. He is a well
known supporter of FOSS and OpenOffice.org in Denmark. I have told
him that the community would be happy to help and I expect to meet
with him on Tuesday morning
to make the arrangements.
Best regards,
Leif Lodahl
Lead of DA.OpenOffice.org
John McCreesh skrev:
"Can it be true that a school union complained to the Danish
Lyngby-Taarbaek Municipality council and mayor after they put the
schools
on to FOSS productivity software?"
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014804o-2000673651b,00.htm
John
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