I have a similar story here in Dumaguete City.
I'm taking an animation class at Foundation University and next door to our classroom is a huge room with a big sign saying "Linux Laboratory." I peeked in and saw the familiar brown Ubuntu theme. Later on, as I'm walking down the corridors, I see three other laboratories all running Ubuntu.
So I asked the department chair Joel Balajadia how the whole thing was going. Apparently, he switched over their entire labs to Ubuntu immediately after LinuxWorld. They did it over a Saturday. He said that by Monday he was expecting the labs to be empty, but no! They were full!
And what about the much-vaunted user-interface difficulties? Since they had no other choice, the students just plowed on with it. So now Foundation University is Ubuntu country.
I'll write a full story on this soon.
On 11/14/05, Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The Dean of the School of Science and Engineering of
Ateneo de Manila University, Dr. Toby Dayrit, is
spear-
heading the open source movement in the Ateneo.
The movement is supported by the Department of
Information Systems & Computer Science (DISCS), which
aims to lead the School in the adaption of open
source.
For a start, all the teaching labs now dual boot to
UbuntuLinux/WinXP, with Ubuntu as default. By the end
of this week, even the open labs will dual boot also.
The faculty are studying ways to teach the
traditionally Windows-heavy courses like Multimedia
(using Flash, Photoshop, etc.) with alternative open
source tools.
The Ateneo has academic licensing agreements with
Microsoft Philippines. The site-licensing terms
are pretty good, but Ateneo still has to pay
substantial licensing fees. Windows will continue
to be used in many offices, and in the dual-booting
labs.
The use of Ubuntu is experimental, and if the DISCS
open source initiative succeeds, a wider adaption of
open source might be undertaken in the near future.
Pablo Manalastas
Linux User #5037
http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=5037
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