On 6/15/07, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Err, my mom teaches the class. Currently they want to move to office 2003 which isn't neccesarily a bad thing, but the book they want her to use is extremely bad from what I here. 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 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
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