I love the idea of FOSS for students in general. the reasons are plentiful! On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > Make sure to do your home work on whatever software you are proposing at > the time. > For instance, if you want to propose the GIMP, make sure that you have > teaching materials, tutorials and other support sites at hand so that > whoever takes a look at your recommendation will immediately see that it > is a serious contender. > > Make sure you point out that all of this software is available to the > students at home at no cost.  It's a lot easier for students to work on > assignments when any computer that they work on, including their own can > have the software available that they need. > > Brian > > Stu wrote: >> Thanks! Phase II of my plan is to show it to my co-workers, and get them >> to request it on their computers as well... >> Today, the intranet... tomorrow, the WORLD! >>       ...Muwhahahaha! >> >> On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 15:37 -0700, AZ RUNE wrote: >>> That is awesome and good work >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Stu wrote: >>>                Just this past week, I finally convinced our new IT >>>         director to install >>>         the Windows version of Inkscape on my work computer since I've >>>         been >>>         using it for the past several years anyway. >>>                A baby-step in the right direction for them, and I can >>>         finally take my >>>         old laptop home! >>> >>>                Stu >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss