On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 21:48 +0100, Sophie Gautier wrote: > The aim of educ project here is to gain more schools and universities > use OOo, not to make them contribute and share their tools and knowledge.
Actually it is an aim to get them to do this and that is one of the things I have been trying to do. In fact we did have a small start with Otto as he was designed by a school boy in a competetion. The main reason I haven't pushed for a separate education project is I never got the CVS stuff working and I couldn't alter the web site and I couldn't see too many schools going for commit rights to help out. Now there is a Wiki that is much simpler and I think it will be easier to get people involved in making such contributions. Also for the Gold INGOT there is a requirement to make a contribution to an Open Source project with OOo as the example. We have issued around 3000 INGOT certificates so far but most are Bronze and younger kids. I am currently going through the procedures with the UK government to get the certification officially recognised for school league table point scores. When this happens a lot more will do Gold. I have also been to talk with the Governments of Catalonia and Extremadura and we have assessors now in Australia, New Zealand, Philipines, Sweden, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Slovenia, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Mexico, USA, Romania. > I'll propose on saturday an education incubator project where accent > will be placed on sharing : tools, knowledge, participation... Part of > my work in France and Africa has been successful, and I really want to > bring it to the overall project. > Placing in at the same level as the [EMAIL PROTECTED] would really confused > people and make them go away, just because the purpose is not the same. > Understand me right, this is not to underestimate the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > project, the topics of these projects are simply different, and they are > both necessary. I think this needs a bit of thought. You might be right but if I was taking a zero based view my first thought would be that there should be a single education project. > So, as I said, my proposal for this incubator will come on Saturday, I > hope that all the pedagogy experts will join it and that we will achieve > a world share :) Where will the proposal take place? > Kind regards > Sophie > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
