[seul-edu] RE: inclusion in the becta catalogue

["Chris Shaw" <chrisjshaw@compuserve.com>]

Hi All,
I have just joined this list and thought I should briefly introduce myself.
I am a Governor of a UK school and a Linux dabbler with an interest in
seeing our school (and others in the UK) get benefits from open source /
Linux software.

Regarding mikee's post, I thought you might be interested to know that I
have just sent Becta a copy of a modest document I compiled with lots of
Linux in Education type links with brief descriptions.  The reason I did
this was that in my trawls to find out more about activity in this area
there seemed to be rather a shortage of Links between some useful (to me)
sites. You will see from the correspondence below that the "infosheet"
person / department seemed glad of the information.

Chris Shaw

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Shaw" <chrisjshaw@compuserve.com>
To: "infosheet" <infosheet@becta.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: Linux in Schools


> Dear Simon / Information sheet Co-ordinator
> I am glad you have found my digging useful. The document is not posted on
a
> web site but you are most welcome to use anything in it.
>
> While doing my bit of research I was struck by how fragmented the web
> network seemed to be - on most topics a few top level links can be used to
> trace most of the "best" content and they all tend to cross refer to each
> other.  However, with Linux in Schools this seems not to be the case.
>
> I was hoping that by sending the results of my little exercise to you and
> others that you would all add some more links to your own web sites and
> hence improve the visibility and accessibility of the work that is going
on.
> This would seem to be preferable than for me to create another site that
> people first have to find. Given BECTA's profile may I say that it would
be
> particularly useful if you felt able to expand your Open Source links
> section.
>
> Subsequent to my email to you I sent my document to our schools ICT
manager
> and discovered that, unbeknown to me, we have been using one Linux server
> for internet / email access for some time.  I wonder how many other hidden
> Linux / Open Source users are out there and what role BECTA might be able
to
> play in helping more schools to benefit from this technology.
>
> Regards,
> Chris Shaw
> Tarporley Community High School
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "infosheet" <infosheet@becta.org.uk>
> To: "'Chris Shaw'" <chrisjshaw@compuserve.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 10:58 AM
> Subject: RE: Linux in Schools
>
>
> >
> > Dear Chris,
> >
> > Thank you very much for your email regarding Open Source software and in
> > particular, the Becta information sheet on Open Source software.  I sent
> > your email onto my colleague, Simon White, who wrote this information
> sheet.
> >
> > He has asked if we could potentially link to your document if it is on
the
> > web, via our Open Source Information sheet.  Would this be possible?
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> > Information sheet Co-ordinator
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Chris Shaw [SMTP:chrisjshaw@compuserve.com]
> > > Sent: 26 May 2002 14:42
> > > To: infosheet@becta.org.uk; phil@lfsp.org; penguin@linuxinschools.org;
> > > kevin@northants.lug.org.uk
> > > Subject: Linux in Schools
> > >
> > > First I wanted to say thanks for your various internet pages which
have
> > > helped me greatly in getting an initial view of the availability and
> > > status of Linux / Open Source software for schools.
> > >
> > > You all seemed to have some interest in getting feedback / information
> > > related to this topic so I have attached a document I have compiled
> > > summarising what seems to be in use in about a dozen UK schools. I did
> not
> > > attempt to find schools individually but pulled information together
> from
> > > a few (different) collaborative groupings. If you know of any others I
> > > would be glad to hear of them.
> > >
> > > I have also listed some dozens of links to very relevant web resources
> > > which did not seem to be collected together anywhere else - though
each
> of
> > > you pointed me to several for which, again, thanks.
> > >
> > > In case you are wondering, my own interest in this stems from my work
as
> a
> > > school governor and Linux dabbler trying to work out if Linux / Open
> > > Source is a realistic way for our school to save money and / or gain
> extra
> > > ICT facilities.
> > >
> > > Chris Shaw
> > >   << File: Linux in Schools.doc >>
> >
> >
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