Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Colin McCarthy
Smart Technologys the makers of 'SmartBoards' one of the two popular interactive whiteboards already do a linux client. Its almost exactly the same as the windows version and works perfectly. I have used to many times at our LUG meeting which occasionally meets in a school. Capita recently

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Alan Bell
Colin McCarthy wrote: Smart Technologys the makers of 'SmartBoards' one of the two popular interactive whiteboards already do a linux client. Its almost exactly the same as the windows version and works perfectly. I have used to many times at our LUG meeting which occasionally meets in a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 25/05/10 07:44, Colin McCarthy wrote: Smart Technologys the makers of 'SmartBoards' one of the two popular interactive whiteboards already do a linux client. Its almost exactly the same as the windows version and works perfectly. I have used to many times at our LUG meeting which

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 24 May 2010 22:00, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have no idea what sort of software a school needs but I suspect something like:      * Office software; They use MS Office because they pay for it. If they don't buy something they lose the money.      * Some sort of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Alan Bell
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: snip - other sensible sounding stuff I think what I'm saying is that schools are just like any other SME and should be treated the same, not as their own special, idealised, case. yeah, they have the same issues as any SME, and we have solutions for them. We

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Matthew Holder
Hi all, I work for a secondary school in the Midlands as an ICT Technician. I saw the news regarding BECTA and was rather shocked to see it go (in fact only two months back I applied for a job with them - I feel for the people who will lose their jobs, but I'm glad I wasn't offered one)! The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Joe Metcalfe
I worked as an ICT teacher last year and we mostly taught based on MS Office - it seemed that this was mostly driven by the Head of Department. I was allowed to teach Python to Year 9 for a term though. At GCSE level we mainly taught OCR Nationals, which required all work or evidence to printed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Alan Lord (News)
Here's a pretty well researched post by Glyn Moody on why he thinks Becta was really bad for FOSS in schools. http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14entryid=2978 Al -- The Open Learning Centre http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 25 May 2010 12:05, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a pretty well researched post by Glyn Moody on why he thinks Becta was really bad for FOSS in schools. http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14entryid=2978 Al He's broadly correct but in

[ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-24 Thread Bruno Girin
Hi all, Just a thought I wanted to put to the list. Considering today's news [1] and in particular the demise of Becta, the government's technology agency for schools, is there an opportunity for FOSS to replace some or all of what Becta used to provide? I have no idea what sort of software a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-24 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruno Girin wrote: Hi all, Just a thought I wanted to put to the list. Considering today's news [1] and in particular the demise of Becta, the government's technology agency for schools, is there an opportunity for FOSS to replace some or all

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-24 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi all, Just a thought I wanted to put to the list. Considering today's news [1] and in particular the demise of Becta, the government's technology agency for schools, is there an opportunity for FOSS to replace some or all of what Becta used to provide? I think that the software used in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-24 Thread Mark Brocklehurst
On 24/05/10 23:24, Chris Rowson wrote: Hi all, Just a thought I wanted to put to the list. Considering today's news [1] and in particular the demise of Becta, the government's technology agency for schools, is there an opportunity for FOSS to replace some or all of