Re: [Fsfe-uk] Another positive development

[Graham Seaman]

address@hidden wrote:

> see extract from this weeks Education Guardian extolling open source 
> school:~
>  http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,1387167,00.html

Yes, I saw that, but...



>   The VLE is from Frontier, a
> Norwegian e-learning company and is an open source, web-based solution
> which can cater for a variety of electronic formats. 

I can't find the slightest trace of this open source VLE anywhere. I 
believe it should be 'fronter', not 'frontier' (see fronter.info/com). 
They seem to be listed in a lot of places as 'open source' but don't 
appear to mention this on their own web site; as far as I can tell, this 
is either not open source, or open source but under a proprietary 
license (ie. you have to buy a license before you get to see it at all). 

Graham


> There are plans
> for federation members to link in to Crossways network, once the
> school's infrastructure has been upgraded.  In the future virtual
> lessons on the VLE or through video conferencing will be piloted in
> minority subjects or for gifted and talented students.
> Contact:
> Crossways Academy http://www.crossways.ac.uk
> Frontier http://frontier.info/com
>
>  
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In a message dated 16/01/2005 20:22:08 GMT Standard Time, 
> address@hidden writes:
>
>     On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 15:44 +0000, Graham Seaman wrote:
>
>     > If school users want to follow up Ruth Kelly's suggestion is it
>     actually
>     > easy for them to do?
>
>     If they already know something about it, if not... :(
>
>     One of the problems is that schools run a wider range of
>     legacy apps than any other type of organisation.
>     However it's happening in other countries, where there
>     is the political will.
>     btw Four years ago I found a primary school in mid-Wales
>     running entirely Free Software on the desktop. They were
>     having no problems, and didn't feel themselves to be
>     particularly unusual :)
>
>     >  Or is there a huge market/marketing opportunity
>     > for free software being missed?
>
>     Yes, but not by us. We've been banging on to government
>     and schools about this for years. However others have
>     louder voices, so it seems to take us some time to
>     start to get through :-/
>
>     Ian (Lynch) seems quite optimistic that things are changing
>     - let's hope he's right :)
>
>     Feel free to join AFFS' campaign to get Free Software into
>     schools =o)
>
>     - Richard
>
>     --
>     Four years ago:
>     https://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/05/Linux_For_Schools.pdf
>
>     HM government last year:
>     http://www.publicservice.co.uk/pdf/cg/8/CG8%201704%20R%20Smedley%20ATL%
>     20Amen.pdf
>
>     Recent educational moves:
>     see Linux Pro, 9/04 (with LXF 57) -
>     
> http://www.schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/June-October_2004#We.27re_in_the_Press.21
>
>     AFFS and education
>     http://www.affs.org.uk/education/index.html
>
>     Grants for Free Software development in the UK
>     (write some software for schools):
>     http://www.affs.org.uk/grants/
>
>
>  
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