Linux for schools?

Am 04. Feb, 2004 schw=E4tzte Vaughn Treude so:

> Sounds like an excellent project. I can't think of a better application =
for
> Free Software, not only in the interest of saving the taxpayers money but=
for
> the potential educational value of something that can be built upon by th=
e
> young hackers of the future.

The Open Source Education Foundation is a non-profit in Tucson working
to create Free Software for education.

www.OSEF.org

> Speaking of education, a friend of mine says that this "No child left beh=
ind"
> law is supposed to be a big boon to software people, as much of the money
> allocated by the Feds will be eaten up with programming efforts to fund t=
he
> government's voracious appetite for reports on everything the schools do.
> Open source could provide the schools a bit of relief on that, particular=
ly
> if it can be well-integrated with their existing systems (probably MS.) =
I
> was going to investigate this further before posting (it bugs me when peo=
ple
> say "we should look into this" while taking no initiative themselves) but=
I
> am suddenly swamped. So I put this thought forward for someone who's in
> need of project ideas.

This is the type of thing that we need Free Software companies to pursue.
Schools are developing a respect and desire for Free Software. I think this
is definitely an expanding market.

ciao,

der.hans
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