Here is a quick update on the state of play with the INGOTs. We have approximately 50 High Schools in the UK either in the process of doing INGOTs or with them built into their development plans which are linked to their funding. In most cases each of these high schools has 4 or 5 feeder schools that will also be certificating children through the scheme.
In Poland Wojciech Domalewski informs me that he is in the process of training about 40 assesors. We also have definite presence in Serbia/Montenegro, New Zealand, USA and Venezuela where I have trained assessor trainers (ie people authorised to train other assessors) and in Australia and Romania where I need to go. We will have assessor trainers in Slovenia and Czech Republic in a couple of weeks time. I'm going to Australia to the Linux Conf there in April so that should sort out Australian assessors. We have now got My First INGOT written and the strategy is that 5-7 year olds that achieve this become members of OTTO's club. We will develop a section on the INGOTs website www.theINGOTs.org with problems and puzzles for members of the club. The website is being completely overhauled to make it easier to cater for different languages. We now have a discussion forum on the website for assessors and any people interested. So given that we only really fully got going in September, I think things are going well. All students going through INGOTs will be knowledgeable about Open Source and copyright issues and they will all have taken part in some support or development activities for the OpenOffice.org community. Apart from this we will generate an income stream to fund development priorities not covered by Sun. At the moment all income is being put back into developing the project but there should be scope for at least some modest donations to the project before too long. Regards, -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
