Educational Gnome [was Re: terminal servers]

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Justin Maurer wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 16:21, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > So getting this to work is a big deal for helping out schools.
> 
> [slightly offtopic? raving about the frustration and headaches LTSP
> saved me :) but don't skip over the guinea pig for gnome part below]
...
(Justin talked about apps of Gnome in education)

Just as another aside, the US D of Education now requires that (newly
acquired) computer hardware and software be accessible to people with
disabilities, I believe, and state governments are also adopting such
rules.  Another reason why Gnome accessibility is useful, since without
it some educational uses would be unfeasible for policy reasons.

-Bill

> 
>         i no longer attend the school, but there is absolutely no doubt in my
> mind that the guy in charge there now (technically and politically)
> would absolutely leap at the chance to be used as a guinea pig, for any
> purpose the gnome project would ask (again, technically or politically).
> 
>         last i checked, the _business_ computer lab was going to be upgraded to
> the same system :)
> 
> -justin