[school-discuss] SlashDot asks how to promote FOSS EduWare

[Leon Brooks <leon@brooks.fdns.net>]

    http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/12/171259

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We've put together a distance learning system for a college and the 
system is being released under an open source license. Given the budget 
we had, it was a decent sized system with enough features to go 
toe-to-toe with Blackboard in many situations. The biggest problem 
we're having right now is trying to find the appropriate people at 
colleges/universities. How do you go about reaching decision makers on 
something like this when the primary benefits of it is its open source 
nature? Cost/freedom are great, but many schools wouldn't be getting 
anything they don't already have, and would also have to go through the 
pain of migration. In a perfect world this becomes something that other 
schools could contribute to and build on, but getting that kind of 
buy-in seems relatively difficult. What types of academic positions 
would Slashdot readers recommend approaching (Deans? Presidents? 
Webmasters? Teachers? IT People?) What types of approaches might work 
best? Better yet, what's worked with -your- school to get them to adopt 
an Open Source Education System?
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Go ahead, make their day. (-:

Cheers; Leon