On Sun, 20 May 2001 21:38:23 +0200 "WDS" wdesmet@yucom.be wrote:
WDS> >Invite some teachers and _discuss_ the use of free software WDS> Good idea, but most teachers are (as far as I know) educated at a federal WDS> level. And usually support for school ICT projects (at least here in WDS> Belgium) is very dependent on corporate sponsoring. IMHO, we should try to WDS> lobby the countries and not influence the teachers, who represent the blind WDS> mass.
I do not agree. What is lacking in the education community (teacher) is a strong hacker community. If there is no hacker community in the education there is few free edu software developped.
What we can do is to help to build such a community. Writing documentation targeted to these people can help -- without waranty of any success. Explaining the GNU philosophy is also important probably
This is what I have started since one year, writing tutorial to develop application using Python/Gnome/Glade. I am not personnaly very interested in Python programming but this is a good language to start developping but we *lack* good documentation to attract people.
Pyhton is probably the easiest entry point although there is probably other possibilities.
Hilaire
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