{"id":2924,"date":"2009-10-24T14:29:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T22:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2009-10-24T14:29:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T22:29:58","slug":"fossoss-in-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/2009\/10\/24\/fossoss-in-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"FOSS\/OSS in Public Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Blog Question<\/strong>: Would you support implementing FOSS\/OSS in your work environment?<\/p>\n<p>At my small secondary school, we already support FOSS\/OSS use.\u00a0 Our server is run with Apache software and is hosting Moodle for some of our classes.<\/p>\n<p>On another note, the Vancouver Board of Education has now installed OSS software such as Open Office and Gimp onto board-issued computers.\u00a0 I know there are some teachers, including myself, that aren&#8217;t too keen on the Open Office at this point because most of our computer files are MS Word-based.\u00a0 Even though Word files can be opened with Open Office, often, some of the formatting is lost.\u00a0 I think it will definitely take some time before people get used to it and start transferring files over to using these OSS software programs.\u00a0 It sort of reminds me of way back in the day when there was the battle of web browsers&#8230;Netscape vs. IE.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t remember how many times (lots!) that I switched between the two browsers as my default.\u00a0 One would come up with new features and I would then switch to that one.\u00a0 This went on for years until, of course, IE won out.\u00a0 Now, I&#8217;m using Firefox. =)<\/p>\n<p>In general, I would support FOSS\/OSS in public schools; however, only if we were given more tech-support from our school board.\u00a0 Last thing I want is to become the tech-support guy every time one of my colleagues has a problem with the OSS.\u00a0 If that&#8217;s the model (i.e. teachers becoming their own tech-support) that the school boards are going to then I would not support it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog Question: Would you support implementing FOSS\/OSS in your work environment? At my small secondary school, we already support FOSS\/OSS use.\u00a0 Our server is run with Apache software and is hosting Moodle for some of our classes. On another note, the Vancouver Board of Education has now installed OSS software such as Open Office and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[6039,3869,5176],"class_list":["post-2924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mod06-open-source","tag-m6","tag-oss","tag-pao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}