On 8/15/07, Iwan Vosloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.)
Indian schools go through a somewhat similar process too. > 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 was not asked to write a book but out of curiosity I visited a number of schols to see how popular Linux was! Most people dont know about Linux or have heard of Linux but think its for geeks/nerds/engineers. I did contact a publisher but tbh, did not get a positive response, especially since it was not financially remunerative for him. So the idea just died but I hope you can make this book a reality :) -- Vid http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/VidAyer -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
