Re: Christian's Questions...

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le mer 10/04/2002 à 00:36, Alessandro Rubini a écrit :
> 
> Bruno Coudoin:
> > About my experience on gcompris, teachers are easy to convince that they
> > should teach free software but it is hard for them to go further
> > because:
> > - they don't have enough technical expertice to force the windows admin
> > out there to install a dual boot
> > - the windows admin refuses to install it
> > - they need to convince other teachers but they don't have the
> > information we have to convince them.
> 
> Yes, agreed. Except I think dual boot is no good at all most of the
> time.  I set up a dual-boot schoolroom, but I wouldn't' do it any more
> as it's unmaintainable. If I can't have the whole of the disk, I'd
> rather do all diskless hosts, rather than half of the disk.

Correct, it makes sense.

> 
> > Perhaps, we could create a specific little book dedicated to the
> > education market that would contains explaination on why free software
> > in school is mandatory and a description of a list of free software and
> > in what they can be used for (or what can they replace) and why not a CD
> > like demo linux with that (or a full distrib).
> 
> Interesting idea. Volunteers?
>   [no, I'm not sarcastic here. I *really* hope there's bright people
>    with available time for this]
> 

Well of course I am volunteer.

Bruno.