Article in "Yediot Petah Tikva" from today

2008-07-25 Thread Omer Zak
According to this article (pg. 30-31) in one of Petah Tikva's local newspapers, the municipal education department decided to switch to Linux. Congratulations to the unnamed activists who did the public relations work behind the curtains! --- Omer -- MS-

Re: Article in "Yediot Petah Tikva" from today

2008-07-28 Thread Lior Kesos
Hi Omer, My (calculated) guess is that the kudos should go to Nadav Kavalerchick which is working within the petach-tikva education system. I know he has swept people from within the system (I think I talked to his boss once) with the OSS way. Nadav is a strong promoter of wikis and OSS crms like j

Re: Article in "Yediot Petah Tikva" from today

2008-07-28 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 08:39:35AM +0300, Lior Kesos wrote: > My (calculated) guess is that the kudos should go to Nadav Kavalerchick > which is working within the petach-tikva education system. While I'm sure he deserves whatever praise he gets, he is not alone. Both of my sons in elementary sch

Re: Article in "Yediot Petah Tikva" from today

2008-07-28 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
+1 On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Lior Kesos wrote: Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:39:35 +0300 From: Lior Kesos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: linux-il , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Article in "Yediot Petah Tikva" from today Hi Omer, My (calculated) g

Re: Article in "Yediot Petah Tikva" from today

2008-07-28 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:11:30 +0300 From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Lior Kesos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, linux-il , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Article in "Yediot Petah

Re: Article in "Yediot Petah Tikva" from today

2008-07-29 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:40:14PM +0300, Lior Kesos wrote: > True, > But you're kids do not go and advoagte the use of openoffic to whomever they > meet. > They do not instruct teachers, pedogogical workers and finally people form > the local authorities. But someone had to. Whomever they are, th