Good day, I have setup a web site that connects specific people in the education field (IT staff, teachers, administrators, students, and advocates) with concrete, good information about how they can use Linux in their schools. I saw there was a need for such a site. Schoolforge.net has done a great job bringing the different Linux in education sites together, I wanted to bring the people in the education field together _with_ those Linux in education sites. I designed the Linux In Education Portal site to highlight the Linux in education projects that were mature and ready to be used now. That way the viewers are given a minimum amount of information with maximum amount of usefuliness. I know there are many projects that are just getting started but they are not ready yet. It might become frustrating for potentional users to try and use an unfinished project. I feel these projects are very important to the future of Linux in education and so I have provided the space on the website for links to these up-in-coming projects. This will give viewers a good idea of the future, a very bright future. This site is only BETA right now...it is NOT ready to be used by the public (yes, I know it is on a public server but no one knows but you). I wanted to bring it before all of you guys first and get some constructive feedback about the site, the contents, design, visual appeal, and grammer/spelling. I am open for suggestions about what sites and documentation I should also include but have missed, particularly I am looking for websites that have lesson plans for teachers about issues related to using Linux and Linux based educational software. Also I would like to hear about websites with more information about how people can advocate for the use of Linux in education (ie HOWTOs, presentations, success stories). If you would like me to consider adding your project website into the Linux Links please provide me with a URL and 50 words or less description (sent to my personal e-mail account). In the interest of keeping the information to a minimum, as to not overwhelm viewers, I would like only US based projects unless the site/project can be clearly useful to any US-based school. I fear that it might look like I am not giving every site, every project an equal chance to shine but please understand I am trying to bring the minimum amount of information for the maximum amount of usefuliness to the viewers. That is why I am trying to keep the scope of the site narrow. But I will always be interested in people's constructive thoughts about what I should add to the site, if you feel I am really missing something. My purpose for this website is for it to be a starting place for people in the education field that are interested in Linux. Paticularly I would like the site to be useful enough that people will give out the URL to people as a place for them to start searching, "Yep, boss, Linux can work for us. I have a website for you to look up that might help you get a better idea how: www.linuxineducation.org, surf on over there and when you are done poking around let me know. We can discuss more about using Linux in education." A perfect dialog that is bound to win everyone over. :) Before I forget, does anyone know about a PHP based news manager. I would like to add news to the front page but don't want to set up a SQL server and would like to have the news only display certain catagories based on user settings (ie cookies). Forgive me for cross-posting, I do not know who is only subscribed to one list and not another. If I did I would just send a message directly to the people that haven't received it yet. I also plan to join schoolforge once the site is ready to go public. Linux In Education Portal: Who you are...What you need. http://www.linuxineducation.org Here to serve the Linux in education community :-), Jonathan Hughes declaretruth@yahoo.com -- Jonathan Hughes <declaretruth@yahoo.com>
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