On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 14:26 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > >> Other extremely important thing: OOo4Kids is the way to enter in schools > >> with free software. > > > > There are a few different barriers to entry for free software. > > Installing software is one and of course maintaining it - especially if > > they already have MS Office installed. Then all their curriculum support > > materials specific to MSO and so on. > > > > Analyse all the potential barriers to entry, then put them in order of > > importance and do the things that cost the least and have the biggest > > impact. > > > > I am not sure if this is the correct issues,
They certainly make a massive difference here in the UK and talking to our partners in EU countries also there. This judgement is from direct consultation with the schools, the Schools Open Source project and Schoolforge UK. > moving OOo4Kids into the > OpenOffice.org project is a technical as well as community decision. Yes but the purpose of OOo4Kids is to get kids using OOo. Certainly StarOffice4Kids had very little impact at all in UK schools and neither did Sun's earlier Star Office initiatives. In fact that was one of the reasons I first started the INGOTs. It was clear to me as a professional working in marketing to schools for the last umpteen years that what was being proposed wouldn't work. > Moving OOo4Kids in schools are all of a different conversation that escape > the scope of the OpenOffice.org Project. So you go to all the effort of making a fork of OOo4 without considering how it will get taken up? That seems a very strange view of marketing. > I trusth teacher and academic circles to try to answer this questions and > stablish guidelines to operate with the OpenOffice.org Project etc. Fundamentally, if you have the wrong technical solution and it makes it difficult or awkward for teachers to take it up they won't waste the time and effort. If it is easy they still might not but there is at least a chance that they will. Your market should drive your tech development. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications A new approach to assessment for learning www.theINGOTs.org - 01827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
