On 09/02/2009 23:15, Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote:
unless some incredibly
well-designed thin client solutions were brought to my attention (and then
you're talking equivalent prices for thin clients as you would for regular
MiniATX desktops).
I'm not sure that a thin
I think FOSS can have a huge future but the community need to think about
user experience then it will be taken more seriously.
FWIW I've just come back from FOSDEM (open source community event in
Brussels), and there are plenty of open source projects now putting
usability at the top of their
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Alun Rowe alun.r...@pentangle.co.uk wrote:
//personal rant coming up...
For any open source software (Linux for example) to really work on the
network en mass we need to about user experience. Currently I've yet to see
an attractive/user friendly piece of
On 10/02/2009 09:36, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Alun Rowe alun.r...@pentangle.co.uk wrote:
//personal rant coming up...
For any open source software (Linux for example) to really work on the
network en mass we need to about user experience.
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 23:15 +, Christopher Woods wrote:
different in its model, aiming itself as it does as a social enterprise for
the voluntary and educational sectors. How many schools do you serve in
your
locality? (just curious...) Your model obviously works exceptionally well
for
A postscript:
Anyone interested in helping to improve the
IT situation in schools (through FOSS) may be
interested in membership of Schoolforge-UK.
http://groups.google.com/group/sf-uk-discuss/about
The website contains many case studies, and the
(low traffic) mailing list a number of
On 10 Feb 2009, at 17:57, Richard Smedley wrote:
I'm suggesting 500 or 600 wholly new web apps, designed to cover the
whole
curriculum. A framework would be specified, and commissions given to
*UK*
developers - including bids from schools.
Of course the EU won't let us do it, but there's
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 16:12 +, Christopher Woods wrote:
Given that many schools' IT infrastructure development was so organic and
self-funded throughout the 90s, they are now in the situation where it is
almost completely impractical to start from scratch with a FOSS OS and FOSS
software,
2009/2/9 Richard Smedley r...@m6-it.org:
curriculum areas - this can easily be delivered through
500 - 600 web apps. The whole curriculum. A small investment from
government (less than 1% of the UK's annual school IT spend) would get all
of these apps written. Released under the GNU GPL,
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 19:15 +, Dave Crossland wrote:
2009/2/9 Richard Smedley r...@m6-it.org:
curriculum areas - this can easily be delivered through
500 - 600 web apps. The whole curriculum. A small investment from
government (less than 1% of the UK's annual school IT spend) would get
2009/2/9 Richard Smedley r...@m6-it.org:
Good point. Although I had in mind putting the apps on the school's
intranet server, in which case GPL would be adequate. However there would
doubtless be a market for remote delivery.
Affero is still important for intranets; The plain GPL does not
How as a FOSS company are you going to maintain a
well-staffed callout
team and helpdesk if the software you are providing is essentially
free?
Why is that a problem? My companies have never had a problem
charging for support for Free Software. All software needs support.
You
bits and bobs snipped
Note I'm not affiliated with these groups, nor am I a
teacher, just showing that working, LEA-or-bigger SaaS *is*
being delivered because of that better resourcing.
It warms the cockles of my very being to hear that some organisations can
get it right :) I wonder how
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