Jason Kraus wrote:
On a side note, the reason why I went searching for open source
books/curriculum was in the hope to convince educators and
administrators to allow the use of open office in place of microsoft
office for certain classes (Business and Computers Applications in
specific). That alone could save some big bucks especially if back
with ready made & self improving educational tools.
Are you *sure* you're doing them a service?
I don't know the background here, but please ask yourself what the
*purpose* of those classes is.
Business or Computers Applications, in fact, sound like exactly the
wrong courses to be pushing OpenOffice. People are in those classes
*specifically* to learn Microsoft Office because that's what they are
going to be using when they get out.
In addition, the teacher of those classes is likely to be the type most
easily threatened by what you are proposing. The backlash will push
open source away from the areas that it should be used.
Where you want to evangelize open source are in the *non*-business
oriented classes. So, push the computer programming teacher to use open
source (Eclipse, Java, SVN, virtualized Linux, etc.). Or, push the web
development teacher to use open source (things like Avaya, SVG, etc.).
You're going to get both less pushback and, more importantly,
your going to help them improve the experience and make life *easier*
for the teacher.
-a
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