Re: [GLLUG] Internet Utopias Survey
On Friday, 22 November 2019 19:51:16 GMT John Winters via GLLUG wrote: > > That rings a few bells. I've written some FOSS software for schools, > but in my experience of dealing with school IT people their knowledge of > IT is generally slight to non-existent. To make matters worse, there > are some big suppliers to schools who really prey on this deficiency. > They very much rely on schools having no-one capable of calling out > their bullshit. > A friend was asked to set up a server and some desktop computers in a local junior school. The school had a contract with a major education "provider" which required their IT system to be provided and maintained only by that company, and the school was not allowed to access the system, so the new computers were to be a totally separate independent system and hidden from the contractor. -- Chris Bell Website http://chrisbell.org.uk -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Internet Utopias Survey
On 22/11/2019 19:24, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: [snip A few years ago I visited the BETT show and a teacher explained that she had just been appointed as head of the school's IT department, so had come along to find out what it was all about. That rings a few bells. I've written some FOSS software for schools, but in my experience of dealing with school IT people their knowledge of IT is generally slight to non-existent. To make matters worse, there are some big suppliers to schools who really prey on this deficiency. They very much rely on schools having no-one capable of calling out their bullshit. I really mu st refr ain fro m mentioning any name s John -- Xronos Scheduler - https://xronos.uk/ All your school's schedule information in one place. Timetable, activities, homework, public events - the lot Live demo at https://schedulerdemo.xronos.uk/ -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] Internet Utopias Survey
On Friday, 22 November 2019 16:57:20 GMT Christian Fuchs via GLLUG wrote: > Hello, > > As part of an AHRC research network, I conduct a survey about > Internet/media utopias. > > In the time of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and fake news, we > experience a crisis of Internet platforms. Many people think we need > Internet and media utopias today. But how could they look like? > Indivduals engaged in the free software community might have good > ideas... I want to invite you to participate: > > https://psmutopias.limequery.net/879161 > > Answering will take about five minutes. A number of participants with > very visionary ideas will be invited to a workshop in 2020 in London, > where participants will work on co-writing/co-authoring an > Internet/Media Utopias Manifesto. > > Kind regards, Christian Fuchs Hello Christian Fuchs I find that most people who contribute to local on-line forums in my area do not wish to know any more about IT than they are forced to, and are happy to accept any advice, good or bad, if it explodes in front of them. They think it is too difficult, and are simply not interested. A few years ago I visited the BETT show and a teacher explained that she had just been appointed as head of the school's IT department, so had come along to find out what it was all about. A friend offered the local council Adult Learning section a long course to include comparisons between Unix-compatible FOSS and well-known commercial systems. He spent a year answering requests for ever more detailed information before being told that they had no idea what he was talking about, so no thanks. He is now in New Zealand where even the sheep are more intelligent. The developers who built one of the local multi-storey tower blocks agreed to donate the entire ground floor for local community use, but one of the local councillors objected to a community computer club because "kids might join and learn how to access the internet". It has remained empty and unused for the several years since it was built. At the end of the summer term last year a 12 year old distant relative in Devon handed his school a long list of serious software problems in their system, with details of some of the parts he had accessed. He told me that it was unchanged in the autumn. I hope that UK education is improving, although sometimes there seems to be more interest in remote African villages. -- Chris Bell Website http://chrisbell.org.uk -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
[GLLUG] Internet Utopias Survey
Hello, As part of an AHRC research network, I conduct a survey about Internet/media utopias. In the time of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and fake news, we experience a crisis of Internet platforms. Many people think we need Internet and media utopias today. But how could they look like? Indivduals engaged in the free software community might have good ideas... I want to invite you to participate: https://psmutopias.limequery.net/879161 Answering will take about five minutes. A number of participants with very visionary ideas will be invited to a workshop in 2020 in London, where participants will work on co-writing/co-authoring an Internet/Media Utopias Manifesto. Kind regards, Christian Fuchs -- Prof. Christian Fuchs University of Westminster, Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute http://www.camri.ac.uk @fuchschristian -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
