I agree with you wholeheartedly about this...We had already started discussion with local dell (and HP i think) suppliers in malta a few months back since dell had announced their ubuntu linux boxes, however they were hardly eager of bringing them to malta at all!
As for ECDL, I am also with you on this, In fact it should be renamed to MCDL (Microsoft computer driving license) in all fairness... I think we need to start a plan of convincing first the lowest end of the scale ie: students, and once we have garnered their support we can start moving on to larger fish with numbers to back us up.. To this aim I have already started typing 2 survey documents, 1 for students and 1 for enterprises, on googledocs and have them shared with all committee members...Once they're in a proper draft state, I'll share around with everyone else for comments and improvements. M On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 01:58 +0200, Sebastian Cachia wrote: > To my knowledge, there is a church school ICT co-ordinator (i.e. all > Maltese Church schools). Im not sure if it is still the same person, > but it used to be the ICT teacher at my old secondary school. That > would mean only having to convince one person and leaving it up to > him/her to convince the rest. > > Goals like switching over Government computers, School computers, > steering away from ECDL, etc are all great goals, but will undoubtably > be met with great resistance. Not only by the users who will have to > learn a new system, but far more so by people who have a stake in the > current situation. ECDL is certainly the cash cow of many computer > learning schools, while the government switching over to linux will > certainly be met by resistance, not least by MS themselves, as they > seem to be showing increased action against Linux (take the appearence > of cheap XP on educational laptops like OLPC). > > Building up something like that would require a solid foundation. One > part of that foundation is having students at Uni and Mcast > comfortable with the idea of linux. Accomplishing this would help > ensure that Malta would be able to deal with the change from a HR > point of view. Also, students already used to IT would(should) be far > more open to the change than Mr Average Joe who would wonder if he can > still access hi5 from Linux. > > Also, I wonder, would it be a good idea to try and work with computer > suppliers with regards to linux too. Perhaps someone might be willing > to put together and sell Linux friendly boxes (similar to what Ubuntu > did with dell but on a local scale) .A lot of people will just leave > things as they are as long as they work. Reasonably cheap hardware, > with a funky installation of linux on demonstration in the showroom is > likely to encourage people to buy linux pcs, and just leave things > like that (idea is similar to what many supermarkets are doing abroad > (take WallMart and gOS)) > > In anycase, this post is probably long enough for this time at night, > but the possibilities are endless and worth looking into. > > Seb > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
