-
Included in Debian Edu 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
+
Included in Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux 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
+
named FET, 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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+
+ 8th July 2012
+
+
+
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
+"Can
+you recognize the million pound chair?". Read it and weep for the
+spending of your tax money.
+
+
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.
+
+
+
+
