[Gllug] The BETT education exhibition at Olympia

[salsaman]

Chris Bell wrote:

>On Tue 03 Jan, Martin N Stevens wrote:
>  
>
>>BETT has never had, nor do I expect it ever will have an ORG village.
>>Maybe we could
>>do a Del-Boy suitcase job ;-)
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Budgester
>>    
>>
>
>   I discovered possibly the first BETT show when it was at the Barbican,
>and I was working just round the corner. At that time there were many sole
>traders and small companies offering mainly Acorn applications. One of them
>was actually one of my colleagues doing some moonlighting, building up a
>well known business (Pineapple Software) run by him and his family.
>   There has always been an area set aside for small stands, sometimes
>demonstrating applications developed and marketed by individual schools, but
>I do not know what charges are made. Another area demonstrates facilities
>for "special needs".
>   I was once dragged in to a meeting to discuss the needs of visitors and
>discover whether their expectations had been met. One teacher explained that
>she had just been apointed IT organiser at her school, and had come along to
>find out something about it.
>   There is possibly some improvement in general knowledge, but many schools
>are now locked in to airtight service contracts which prevent any change of
>hardware or software unless supplied directly by the contractor.
>   I have visited the show most years, and recently found some knowledge of
>Linux, but a general reluctance to look outside the official standard
>curriculum.
>
>  
>
Maybe somebody should print out a few flyers with this timely article:

http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/12/19/1859258

Salsaman.

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