Hi there. I've been lurking on this list for a while now, but am still unsure if this is the right place for this mail... but I do think this is a marketing opportunity.
I have been asked by a local (local == South Africa) publisher to write a school textbook for Grade 10 for Information Technology. This is essentially introductory stuff about computers, software, OSses, databases, spreadsheets and (mostly) programming. And it needs to follow the curriculum strictly. (The books are first assessed by the government before schools are allowed to use them.) To write such a book, you need to know which software is in use at the schools to be able to show them things and let them to practical activities. All the other textbooks from competing publishers always exclusively talk about Windows, Access, MSWord and Excel. For a programming language you have to stick to Java or Delphi - the latter of which is also easier to use as introductory language, but is also only available on Windows. I could not stomach the fact that schools are forced in this subtle way to use proprietary programs. I have no idea what tuxlabs schools do in this regard... So I convinced the publisher that we need to (at the very least) cover both worlds, the proprietary and the OSS. And for the latter I'm using Ubuntu, OpenOffice, and BeanShell (for Java). (We included an Edubuntu screenshot here and there as well.) I thought it would be really cool if we could also distribute an Ubuntu (or Edubuntu) CD with the book, and possibly print instructions in the book for getting such CDs (from shipit?). And this is the reason for posting on the marketing list... Any ideas on how one can go about doing this? Any support available from Canonical? Thanks - Iwan -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
