Maybe Opta ;-)
Simon Vass Managing Director E-Tech Uganda Ltd http://www.etech.ug Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 email: [email protected] skype: e-techservicedesk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Ssennoga" <[email protected]> To: "Uganda Linux User Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 21 September, 2011 12:27:41 PM Subject: Re: [LUG] Computers in Schools Maybe COSS... On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Tim Schofield < [email protected] > wrote: Politically (rather than technically or financially) the thing to do is to produce a respin that has Ugandan/East African branding on it. Politicians don't care about the technical benefits of Free software and if its cheap then that just means their cut from any deal is reduced (oops I didn't really say that did I?), but if they can say they have done the patriotic thing by buying local then that is something they will be keen to get in the media. Maybe a centralised non-profit organisation can produce it so that then private companies can sell hardware with it on to the schools. Maybe? Tim On 20 September 2011 17:08, Reinier Battenberg < [email protected] > wrote: > > I dont want to bid. I just want the kids to be free & use FLOSS. > > What if we did a petition? > >> >> Well in that case it would be ok. >> >> The question would therefore be to partner with a suitable hardware supplier > and produce a suitable build for users up country. Maybe even an experiment > where we install half with Windows have with Ubuntu and see which ares > better. > It does require some thought for example what additional hardware is required > to work with the computers. Our box shifter friends tend to give up very > easily if they can not just install the Printer drivers. >> >> So the question might be to contact UCC. However they most likely will tell > you to tender along with everyone else. >> >> >> >> Simon Vass >> Managing Director >> E-Tech Uganda Ltd >> >> http://www.etech.ug >> Tel: +256 (0) 312260620 or (0) 312260621 >> email: [email protected] >> skype: e-techservicedesk >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Reinier Battenberg" < [email protected] > >> To: "Uganda Linux User Group" < [email protected] > >> Sent: Tuesday, 20 September, 2011 5:02:41 PM >> Subject: Re: [LUG] Computers in Schools >> >> >> >> its funded by the Rural xx xx Fund (the extra tax on your airtime that is to >> make sure there is connectivity in non-urban areas too) >> >> so, its a pure UCC thing, it seems. >> >> > 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). 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