Perhaps to lighten the direction here,
A few weeks back I outlined a broad, recycling-based approach that argued "our selling points are training and communications - forget the gimmicks".
Leave the schools to what they do best - employment preparation. Personally, I look forward to the day when all published advertising is digital and indexed - on call only and cutting the wastestream nearer to zip. This answers Luuk's ;-) a week or two back, about what constitutes 'spam' - the end of 'push technology' dominance. So that'll put most graphic designers onto the web for a crust - where they'll meet f/oss at home.
What *we* need to do is establish a 'higher community education' path, and whole new employment offerings. We're talking about alternative education and career options here, not the main(waste)stream.
GNU/Linux Users are currently pursuing sponsorship for a Software Freedom Day <http://www.softwarefreedomday.org> here in Chch, 28 August 2004.
How about getting behind this event, and setting up a demo network for schools to see/buy at an inaugural 'Linux Fair'? Though maybe not the flashest grafix workstations, we can compete on technical "training and communication" skill offerings, and future choices. The ephemera will follow.
hth
Rik+ (FLA)
Nick Rout wrote:
truly i could write a similar comparison on getting stuff that linux does better set up on my windows box, but does joe user care? no, he wants to edit his digital pics, not set up vpn's and proxying or serve email or even serve web pages.
</cynical mood> (you will notice there was no start tag, thats because i
am not sure when that part of the answer started ;-)
