Enquiry about Edubuntu in the classroom

[M. Fioretti]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 19:57:35 PM +0700, Anh Hung Nguyen wrote:

> I'm currently working on a project proposal that in effect brings
> open source and web 2.0 technologies to the classroom. The target
> audience will be disadvantaged children in Ho Chi Minh City,
> Vietnam.

does this school have, or will have, a website? If yes, please let me
know, I'd be glad to add it in the database of Digitally Free Schools
at http://digifreedom.net/node/55 . You may also try to contact by
yourself the schools listed there which seem to have requirements more
similar to yours and ask directly to their administrators.

> There's one thing that also bugs me. Since almost all the companies
> here are using either licensed or pirated versions of Ms Windows,
> what are the career prospects for students who study Edubuntu and
> online collaborative tools such as Google Docs or ZOHO?

Assuming that those companies will still be (legally, economically,
technically) able to work that way when your current students are out
of scool, or that they'll still want to, one of the reasons to insist
on Open Source, Open formats training is to be able to apply for the
**best** jobs.

FOSS specific skills "may" be an overkill or even an obstacle if all
you need is to type in a pirated copy of MS Word, but they may very
well be more valuable if your students want to work abroad, or locally
in an international company, exactly because many such companies
already have started to see that FOSS makes sense for them too.

Hope this helps,
				Marco Fioretti
-- 
Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how
software is used *around* you:            http://digifreedom.net/node/84