[Gllug] BBC looking for campaigners

[Adrian McMenamin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Wilson [mailto:dean.wilson3 at virgin.net]
> Sent: 28 July 2003 14:19
> To: Greater London Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] BBC looking for campaigners
> 
> 
> Formi wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Richard Jones wrote:
> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3092607.stm
> >> Maybe we don't walk around with placards, but there are plenty of
> >> issues at hand
> 
> Which angle would you play though? The cost to the public and 
> the warped
> way they solicit tenders would be a good underdog story "We 
> went into this
> school and reduced the IT departments budget spending by X. 
> Look at the
> happy little gits on the swings." with lots of great PR 
> oppotunities for
> photoshoots. Little smiling kiddies with giant Penguins and lizards.
> 
> 

I would love to tell you that would work, but I'm not convinced. In my
experience with my daughters' school, the staff are highly reliant on the
governors for any additional IT expertese (or their partners, as with me)
and those people are all Windows-only. When i talked to them about 'nix I
was regarded as coming from the Planet Anorak.

This was a primary school - so the savings would not have been big in any
case. Secondary schools could be very different, but MS have a point when
they talk about TOC in this environment - the teachers are trained to use
Wintel, the parents use Wintel. It is very difficylt to break through in
this environment. That is why the "revolution" will run from the server to
the workplace to the home and not the other way round.
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