[Linux-bruxelles] Re: Campagne logiciel libre dans l'education

[Schneider Oliver]

I wouldn't be to pessimistic. 

As you know many schools are open to libre software and many ministries
are analysing the alternative.

On the level of "training", we 've seen major advances in the last
months. Many people will learn to use those applications in the official
training centers of the government.

In the last 6 months, the non-profit associations have really made huge
progress in the comprenhension of the libre software mouvement. (for
example via the "esnet" association, www.esnet.be, in which we are
deeply involved).

I agree we have to coordinate our efforts to promote GNU/Linux towards
decision-makers. Maybe we could use the summer months to have a meeting
with Mind about this (open to anyone who wants). I particularly feel
concerned about the situation in Flanders and their agreements with
Microsoft.

Are you OK with this idea?

Oliver Schneider
Arafox


On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 12:55, Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:48:25AM +0200, Herman Bruyninckx wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Pettiaux Nicolas wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > > Je crois qu'il serait adéquat de faire la même chose chez nous.
> > 
> > Le probleme eternel reste de trouver les canaux appropries pour la
> > diffusion d'articles pareils. Il nous faut le support d'une majorite
> > des entreprises LL, et elles doivent former une entite qui puisse
> > faire le lobbying et la representation officiele chez les autorites...
> 
> Well,
> 
> A few months ago I offered to the school of my children to give them a
> few PC's with Linux and Free Software installed for free (0 $). They did not
> want them because the standard edcuational programs (from 2 Dutch suppliers),
> did not run on them, so they deemed the PC's with Linux to be valueless :-(
> 
> In Holland there is a grand meeting on this subject (Linux and Free SW in
> education) around this time and I told them to make sure that they get
> in contact with the major suppliers of educational SW to bring out versions
> for Linux.
> 
> As always, it are the applications (educational packaes, games, ...) that drive 
> the market. And there, you have a closed circle: application vendors don't bring
> out for other platforms, the platform is not sold because of no applications,
> etc. Also for the application builders, it is actually easier if there are
> less platforms (less different versions to build, test, maintain), so they
> really have no heavy drive to start supporting yet another platform.
> 
> How to break this loop ... ?
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Peter
> 
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> 
-- 
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