On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 18:14 -0500, Dave Sampson wrote: > To get in with the schools and such... well that is a political > game.... one that has to relate to money in the pocket... One of the last times I visited a school I wondered out loud how much money they wasted on Windows (the horribly high number of PCs in a small school, the continual updating, etc.). Sewing the seeds of discontent, but not evangelising something else as its replacment. A small amount of needling in that direction, might perk their attention up to the point that someone might ask what they could do instead. That's the time to promote it, when they *want* to know about something else. I remember when computing first became big at the local school. At the time, we had a few computer teachers really into computing. Amusingly enough, there was some of the stereotypes (e.g. large bearded guy). They were keen on what you could do with software and hardware. Later on, they weren't raving about that anymore. Their concentration was over-occupied with anti-virus, and all the other "not actually using the PC for yourself" annoyances. -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
