Last school year, I worked as a technology coordinator for a rural high school in Illinois. In an attempt to save the school some money, I introduced OpenOffice.org, GIMP, Firefox, and Thunderbird. Linux was also installed on a few desktop PCs and a couple of servers. Ubuntu was the Linux distribution selected.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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fredsambo
4 years 38 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago
This is a really great article!
This is a really great article! I have been working on an Edubuntu project up here in Maine and am confronted with the same issues.
Getting the computers donated = Easy
Getting geeks to install/configure/test machines = Easy
Marketing Edubuntu to teachers and Administrators = Not so easy
We really need to get on the marketing bandwagon with Ubuntu. We have a great product, teriffic support (both free and purchased), now we need to SELL it!
underthelinux
4 years 38 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago
Is there a Loco team in your area?
Is there a Loco team in your area? Maybe they can help with advocation. Its just a regional team, dedicated to spreading the ubuntu linux way of life.
fredsambo
4 years 38 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago
OH yeah we have a team we just
OH yeah we have a team we just tend to be on the technical side of things, not the Marketing/Organizational/Fund Raising side.
We will figure it out. :D