Hi Boaz,
The time is not ripe. Don't waste your energy. Your school principal will
not know what you are talking about and will dismiss you as a hopeless
geek.
A slightly more productive line might be to claim that you are no longer
using desktop computers - only mobile devices, and for these you need
either PDF or Google docs.
I found that this approach, mobile devices, works. For example, at the
American School in Even Yehuda it helped convince teachers to accept and
give assignments in PDF or via Google docs. The techers made this head
switch about three years ago when the younger students who were
the early technology adopters demanded it. It didn't come from the
principal, and not from the parents either, both groups being generally
clueless.
- yba
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, Boaz Rymland wrote:
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 07:20:39 +0200
From: Boaz Rymland <boaz.ryml...@gmail.com>
To: linux-il <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats
Hi all,
I'm about to meet my daughter's school principal on the subject of the formats
of documents the school spreads around
routinely, like the weekly schedule. In short - they are using .DOC MS Word
format and I don't like it as I cannot
cleanly open those documents on my computer (which runs Ubuntu).
Although I'm quite old in the Linux world and probably heard over the years
most of them - still I prefer having a
refreshment of all the arguments in favor of moving to more open or at least
affordable (e.g. PDF) document formats.
Any pointers/text will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Boaz.
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