On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 15:26 -0600, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > I wonder if anyone from the Marketing team has aproached Google so > that OOo can participate in this program. > > We currently need high schoolers to get introduced to the > OpenOffice.org community and I think we should take as much of what is > out there.
I was at the specialist schools conference last couple of days here in the UK. (RM biggest education IT supplier in the UK) expect to sell 250,000 ASUS EEEPCs to UK education next year and that runs Linux and OOo. I talked to guy from a company selling engineering products to schools and told him how to get OOo for a new laptop hew as about to buy. Stll people even in technical areas that haven't heard of OOo. BECTA is financing an open source viewer for interactive whiteboards as a result of a suggestion I made 2 years ago so slowly the FOSS message is filtering through which makes the environment easier for OOo. One of the things we show learners how to do for the Gold INGOT is to use Portable Apps from USB pendrives which again introduces OOo to students when some schools simply won't install on their school networks. On the general INGOT front, we got a lot of interest that should double the number of schools in the next few months (we are now over 50 paying institutions from primary to adult education). The Times Educational Supplement is doing another INGOT article focused on a School in Blackburn that just got an outstanding inspection report and was the first to get the government accredited versions of the INGOT certificates. We have just had the Comenius project finally approved for EU and 2 much larger European projects in planning that should get more than a million Euros of investment in. > Google Highly Open Participation Contest is one of this > chances that we are not participating. > > Can we get some traction to get on board? If there is interest in doing anything jointly I'm happy to cooperate. Ian -- New QCA Accredited IT Qualifications www.theINGOTs.org 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
