Hi Leif, Leif Lodahl wrote: > Based on a question from one of the large Danish Municipals, I would > like to ask you how OpenOffice.org is used in primary schools in your > region.
In addition to what Louis said, you may want to browse the Osor news archives to find press articles relating to Education sector in Europe http://osor.eu/news > > The question comes after an article in the Danish computer magazine > Computerworld.dk today: http://www.computerworld.dk/art/48201 with the > header: Swedish municipals moves to OpenOffice (...in schools) Here is > an english translation: > http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerworld.dk%2Fart%2F48201&hl=da&ie=UTF-8&sl=da&tl=en > > > 1) To what extent do the public schools use OpenOffice.org? A lot, but we do not have numbers and no accurate list. > 2) Is OpenOffice.org the only office suite or can the teachers and > pupils make a choice? Most of the time, they have the choice, still very few are schools that switch to Linux (but I know that schools in Kuru are under Edubuntu ;) > 3) Is the use of OpenOffice.org based on some kind of collaboration > between the municipals or is the decision made individually? Here also it depends of the teachers energy most of the time, there is no dedicated resources to manage the machines, this is done by teachers, but the municipality pays for the material. Very slowly municipalities are more and more aware of ODF, but there is still a lot of resistance. > > In case OpenOffice.org is *not* used, is this caused by aggressive > marketing and price dumping from Microsoft ? Oh, yes, teachers can have Office 2007 for free in France... This site for example http://www.curiosphere.tv/ which pertains to the public TV channel France5 did even had a Microsoft disciple for teachers and students this summer, we battle to makes its removal. Just see the difference between the screen shot in this article on Framasoft http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2008/09/17/curiospheretv-et-microsoft-merci-le-service-public and what it looks like now http://www.curiosphere.tv/ressource/19636-tutoriels-video-se-former-au-b2i > > In Denmark, I can tell you, the interest is increasing enormously these > days. I'm in contact with almost all the Danish municipals about > OpenOffice.org (and other F/OSS applications) in primary schools. This is a really great news and I wish you a full success :) Kind regards Sophie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
