7th July 2012
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- <p>Included in <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu</a> is a
-large collection of end user and school specific software. It is one
-of the packages not installed by default but provided in the Debian
-archive for schools to install if they want to, is a system to
-automatically plan the school time table using information about
-available teachers, classes and rooms, combined with the list of
-required courses and how many hours each topic should receive. The
-software is
+ <p>Included in <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux</a> is a large collection of end user and school specific
+software. It is one of the packages not installed by default but
+provided in the Debian archive for schools to install if they want to,
+is a system to automatically plan the school time table using
+information about available teachers, classes and rooms, combined with
+the list of required courses and how many hours each topic should
+receive. The software is
+
<a href="http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/">named FET</a>, and it provide a
graphical user interface to input the required information, save the
result in a fairly simple XML format, and generate time tables for
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+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_do_schools_waste_money_on_IT_.html">Why do schools waste money on IT?</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 8th July 2012
+ </div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <p>In the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project, we have realised that one
+of the major blockers for the project success is the purchasing skills
+in schools and municipalities. We provide what the happy users of
+Debian Edu / Skolelinux say they need and to a lower cost than the
+alternatives, and yet so few schools decide to use our solution. I
+was pleased to discover the same observation done by mySociety and Tom
+Steinberg in his blog post
+"<a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2012/06/19/can-you-recognize-the-million-pound-chair/">Can
+you recognize the million pound chair?</a>". Read it and weep for the
+spending of your tax money.</p>
+
+<p>Of course there are other factors involved as well, like our
+projects bad marketing skills and the Linux community fragmentation
+causing worry with the people on the outside, so we as a project need
+to keep working hard to gain users, but it is a up-hill battle when
+public decision makers are unable to understand computer system
+purchases.</p>
+
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+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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