[Fsfe-uk] Essex laptop for pupils plans

[Marc Eberhard]

Dear all,

anyone interested to follow this up and to find out more details?

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3514384.stm

>From the article:

  New drive to give pupils laptops
[...]
  Essex is the latest education authority to urge parents to make
  tax-deductible contributions to a charity so schoolchildren can have
  laptops.
[...]
  The Anytime, Anywhere Learning initiative - pioneered by software company
  Microsoft - involves the setting up of a charitable "e-learning foundation". 
[...]
  The authority hopes shortly to announce major sponsorship by a computer
  firm. 
[...]

This might be a good time to approach them and to find out, if this is yet
just another marketing trick to get kids into using proprietary software. We
could surely offer them CDs with OpenOffice and a free operating system for
the laptops. :-)

Any volunteer?

Thanks,
Marc
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