Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-29 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Ravi, I fully agree with you that software piracy should be dealt with firmly by law. You can others can do your bit by helping educate the public on this. If you study this proprietary software only you will get GIS job , is another clever marketing strategy (like the Billions of dollars

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-28 Thread Randal Hale
If a bootable USB version could be developed for schools/kids with suggestions of buy this USB drive and here's how you load everything - that would help in a lot of cases. BUT * I underestimate the kids abilities - some are very sharp - some look for the anykey. * In general many of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-28 Thread Ravi Kumar
The developing world including India battles a scourge 'P I R A C Y'. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/it-services/Nehru-Place-A-beehive-for-software-piracy/articleshow/11349126.cms Unless this affliction to society is cured, Open Source Software will have very slow growth. While I teach

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-27 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Randy, Thank you for the updates. Geo for All welcome Ms Keith and all school teachers around the world to be part of our community and help spread geoeducation opportunities for their students. As you rightly pointed out the focus should be on the curriculum and not just using ONLY one

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-27 Thread Tom Roche
(Note extended quote tail omitted from this post--remember, folks, we have archives![1]) Randal Hale Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:17:54 -0400[2] Ms Keith (on this list as of last night and cc'd) has a lab but it is quickly going out of date with regards to proprietary software. My wish has been to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-27 Thread Vaclav Petras
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com wrote: Randal Hale Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:17:54 -0400[2] Ms Keith (on this list as of last night and cc'd) has a lab but it is quickly going out of date with regards to proprietary software. My wish has been to replace everything

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The importance of having Open Principles in Education for our future generations

2015-06-26 Thread Randal Hale
I'm probably not cleared for every list I've got on CC. So part of the Story that Dr. Anand has mentioned was dealing with a small public school in Tennessee. I looked at GeoForAll and apparently there are 97 labs - most of the labs appear to be university settings. Is there any plan or wish