[Opensource] Openoffice in NSW education

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Although our Ubuntu powered kiosks and small laptop program happily runs
just open office and nobody has complained (or probably noticed), most of
our school computers run different flavours of office. I accept work from
students authored with either. Probably as a bilingual school, we have
learned to regularly celebrate our differences and the freedoms we have to
speak or work in the ways we wish or need to.

We are using an open source based video system in our library that is based
on MythTV. Plumi sounds interesting .. must look that one up. :-)
     http://plone.org/products/plumi

Regards Roland

On 10/04/2008, victor rajewski <askvictor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Pia Waugh <pia at waughpartners.com.au>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> http://www.afr.com/home/viewer.aspx?ATL://20080409000020521011&title=NSW+education+downgrades+Microsoft+deal
> >
> >  It was freely available yesterday :( But basically Openoffice is on the
> >  cards, and being rolled out to tens of thousands of NSW education
> sector
> >  computers. Yay!
>
>
> Call me cynical, but I reckon they're using OO.org to push MS into
> giving them a better deal. Has happened numerous times to date -
> Company/City/State/Country says "we're going to run everything on
> linux/oo.org/[other OSS app]", Microsoft goes into a flurry, offers a
> vastly cheaper deal, and the Company/City/State/Country decides to
> stay with MS. Which is not an outright bad outcome - it's forcing MS
> to reconsider its monopolistic pricing structure, but ultimately not
> the most ideal outcome either.
>
> On the other hand, I've heard rumours the NSW dept of ed is looking at
> deploying the open-source video sharing system Plumi (like an open
> youtube that you can host on your own server), so maybe they are
> looking into OSS seriously.
>
> ciao
>
> vik
>
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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