The biggest problem we face is the current curriculum is Windows only. We would need to change that in order for the students to be able to learn using FLOSS.
Is this a UCC not a MoE deal? Simon On 20 September 2011 15:40, Reinier Battenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Today there is a Bid Notice in the Monitor to supply 130 schools in Uganda > with computers. There is not much more information in the advertisement. > > For the interest of the students, I think it would be very benifitial if the > computers would run FLOSS. There are a few arguments for that, which I think > UCC should take into consideration when assigning the final bid. > > This being the LUG, i presume there are quite a number of people on this list > that agree with me. > > What can we, as a community do, to get our point across to UCC and allow these > 130 schools to run software that they can maintain, learn, translate and > extend? > > -- > rgds, > > Reinier Battenberg > Director > Mountbatten Ltd. > +256 758 801 749 > www.mountbatten.net > http://twitter.com/batje > http://twitter.com/mapuganda > > > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any > way. > -- Simon Vass _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
