[K12OSN] Are you using Open Source Software in K-12?

[Paul Nelson]

I'll vouch for the NWREL. They are good folks and are up front about who
they are and what the are doing. It's not marketing. They are an
educational research lab.

;-) Paul

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 16:27, Basha Krasnoff wrote:
> Huck, this is not a commercial venture. We are federally-funded technical
> assistance center at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory helping
> educators integrate technology into the teaching and learning process. We
> began the Open Options Project to support educators who were trying to come
> to grips with the high costs of keeping technology current. We don't
> advocate for open source software, we just provide pragmatic information
> based on our survey research. We don't try to duplicate other resources for
> technical implementation. Our Web site at http://www.netc.org/openoptions
> shows how the research results are used. We appreciate your input. Basha
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Huck [mailto:dhuckaby at paasda.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 4:06 PM
> To: 'A technical support and discussion community for users of the K12OS
> Linux distribution.'
> Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Are you using Open Source Software in K-12?
> 
> 
> (as a marketing person) this survey site is seriously lacking in
> credibility... Spelling errors abound(as with most e-mails and websites
> today) Questions are fairly leading(as if OS and App discussions weren't
> going to build bias anyway) And what is actually being done with the
> information?? WHO is it mattering to and why? I know it matters to those of
> us who must implement the stuff and those who we need to convince to allow
> us to implement...but other than that...what gets done with this info?
> 
> --Huck

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