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Bravo, Ros!<BR>
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And let's not forget the $harepoint from Microslop.<BR>
There are open source and cross-platform software tools out there.<BR>
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Maggie<BR>
VK3CFI <BR>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">On Sat Nov 29 15:53 , Ros Meadows <ros.meadows@gmail.com> sent:<BR>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In other words - they would prefer to give
educational dollars to big business (the enterprise solution), rather
than help to promote and improve an Australian made, freely available,
open source solution, and in the process perhaps be able to give some
dollars back to schools.<BR>
Let's throw some good money after the bad!!<BR>
There is no doubt that moodle could be adapted (modules added etc) to
suit their needs, if they would embrace the ideology of Open Source
(software AND learning) everyone would be better off.<BR>
Considering the ultranet was originally supposed to be rolled out to
schools from term 2 2008 they will only be 2 years (and how many
millions??) overdue<BR>
I believe it is also because they want TOTAL CONTROL of schools, if
moodle was chosen the source would be open and, omigod, teachers might
be able to get into the workings of the program and perhaps hide
certain things eg parent surveys, from BIG BROTHER. <BR>
Let's promote libre knowledge and learning
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre_knowledge">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre_knowledge</a> <BR>
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Long live DEECeaseD! yeh right!<BR>
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PS thanks Donna for coming on board in my VITTA session on FOSS. I am
sure it improved the session no end!<BR>
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Cheers<BR>
Ros Meadows<BR>
Bentleigh SC<BR>
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"I love teaching but I hate my job" Many have said this.
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Donna Benjamin wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi folks,<BR>
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Moodle.com.au didn't submit to the original tender process, because they<BR>
couldn't meet all the requirements, and it wasn't clear whether the<BR>
department would accept a consortium response.<BR>
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Here's the response I got from the ultranet team...<BR>
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cheers<BR>
Donna<BR>
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Ms Benjamin <BR>
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Thank you for your e-mail concerning the release of the selective tender<BR>
for the Ultranet and your suggestions about the Moodle software<BR>
solution.<BR>
<BR>
The Department is committed to delivering the Ultranet project to all<BR>
Victorian government schools by Quarter 3, 2010. <BR>
<BR>
The Department decided to release a Request for Tender to five software<BR>
vendors through a selective tender process following an independent<BR>
market sounding of the local and global market. <BR>
<BR>
The market sounding exercise subjectively assessed existing software<BR>
solutions that could potentially meet the Department's requirements for<BR>
the Ultranet project and the key Government priorities of teaching and<BR>
learning management and a parent portal. Five software vendors were<BR>
identified as being able to achieve an acceptable solution<BR>
implementation outcome. <BR>
<BR>
The Ultranet will be implemented as an enterprise solution and the<BR>
successful vendor will adopt an enterprise approach to intranet<BR>
development.<BR>
<BR>
Moodle was assessed and was not a close enough fit against the<BR>
Department's requirements for the Ultranet project. Therefore Moodle<BR>
was not suitable for this selective tender.<BR>
<BR>
The market has already had the opportunity to respond to an open Request<BR>
for Tender. The Department released an Ultranet Request for Tender in<BR>
August 2007 and completed the tender evaluation process without being<BR>
able to select a successful tenderer.<BR>
<BR>
Thanks<BR>
<BR>
<name removed=""><BR>
Project Manager<BR>
Ultranet Project<BR>
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