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 <
brian@snaptek.com> 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 <wien33@cox.net> 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
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