On 10/3/06, Rom Feria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
when CICT was still conceptualizing this project, i've been privileged to hear/see/read the ideas of people behind the project, there are actually two sets of training to be done, one for the lab technician who will maintain the computers and second for the teachers notably desktop use. for how long that i don't know perhaps CICT can provide you with an accurate answer.
during conceptualization stages, the OS of choice came for discussion whether to use windoze or Linux, most of the people present during that meeting suggested windoze since to most of them it's the OS they know how to use, so i suggested to them that since the project is to promote FOSS particularly openoffice we might as well use Linux as the OS, they welcomed the idea so the Linux howto was integrated to the trainor's program.
Question - what happens if/when the computer breaks down? Will the
same group provide free technical services? If so, for how long? Who
will teach the technician to troubleshoot these equipment?
when CICT was still conceptualizing this project, i've been privileged to hear/see/read the ideas of people behind the project, there are actually two sets of training to be done, one for the lab technician who will maintain the computers and second for the teachers notably desktop use. for how long that i don't know perhaps CICT can provide you with an accurate answer.
So - regardless of whether or not Fedora, Ubuntu, Windows, Mac or DOS
is used, the more important thing here is training. I'd rather have a
teacher using FreeDOS to teach kids programming than one with Fedora/
Ubuntu-installed computer but is kept in the corner unused. You'd be
surprise that there are far more teachers who are afraid of computers
than those who embrace it.
during conceptualization stages, the OS of choice came for discussion whether to use windoze or Linux, most of the people present during that meeting suggested windoze since to most of them it's the OS they know how to use, so i suggested to them that since the project is to promote FOSS particularly openoffice we might as well use Linux as the OS, they welcomed the idea so the Linux howto was integrated to the trainor's program.
Now - here I am again, challenging PLUG to be pro-active in this
arena. The adopt a school proposal that I have brought up a few
months back elicited a handful of responses. If we, as PLUG members,
are indeed serious in making FOSS the de-facto standard in Philippine
primary and secondary education (believe me, it will "trickle up" to
tertiary), we have to make sure that we do something about it rather
than blabbering here about which distro is better. :)
although i'm not a official PLUG member (mailing list lang :D ), PLUG were involved in this endeavor because most if not all the volunteers i recruited that time (2003) to conduct the trainor's training program were from PLUG.
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