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Saving Money Saving Money with Open Sourcewith Open Source
Open SourceOpen Source SchoolsSchools
Miles Berry, David Willmot, Miles Berry, David Willmot, Alan Bell, Paul HaighAlan Bell, Paul Haigh
Saving moneyMiles Berry, Roehampton University
“Dear Chief Secretary,
I'm afraid there is no money.
Kind regards - and good luck!
Liam”
Liam Byrne
O Brave New World
• Becta
• Harnessing Technology Grant
• BSF
“When we decided to do a microprocessor on our own, I made two great decisions - I gave them two things which National, Intel and Motorola had never given their design teams: the first was no money; the second was no people. The only way they could do it was to keep it really simple.”
Hermann Hausser
“Gentlemen, we have no money, therefore we must think.”
Ernest Rutherford
Open source politics
Ofsted“Compare performance with others to see where improvements could be made.”
The vast majority of schools have invested heavily in computer networks, running expensive commercial operating systems and standard ‘office’ suites of software. In these schools, the annual licensing costs for each networked computer are eating up a significant proportion of the ICT budget, restricting further expansion… Open source operating systems and software are now a reliable and cost-effective solution, enabling the few schools that choose this route to achieve excellent value for money. A few schools have used open source software for establishing a virtual learning environment, enabling them to obtain several years’ worth of development with no licensing costs.
Ofsted
‘‘Challenge why and how a service is being provided.”
All the schools in the sample had chosen to purchase a package of ‘office’ software that is standard in the business world. On the one hand, this has the benefit of introducing students to software they are likely to encounter in the future; on the other, it may actually be hindering the development of their skills. … In the small number of schools that had deliberately chosen to provide a mixture of operating systems, students met a greater variety of software and were better equipped to cope with rapidly changing technologies.
Becta
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Free to run the programFree to run the program
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Free for allFree for all
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SustainabilitySustainability
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InteroperabilityInteroperability
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Straightforward SupportStraightforward Support
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Empowered techiesEmpowered techies
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Free to improve Free to improve the programthe program
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Fit for purposeFit for purpose
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Helping one anotherHelping one another
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LAMPLAMP
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InkscapeDavid Willmot, Blackfen School for Girls
Using Inkscape
Joomla! Moodle & More
Paul Haigh, Notre Dame High School
What kind of a school is Notre Dame?
• Outstanding Catholic comprehensive school 1400 11-18 year olds
• Comprehensive intake 5% FSM 20% on SEN register (9% SA 7% SA+)
• As we draw children from all over the city don’t have the ‘post code skew’ (positive or negative) of other city schools but are truly comprehensive
• Technology College since 1995
• Ex-grant maintained
• Hub of the Hallam CLC (City Learning Centre)
• Also have Leading Edge status and Second Specialism (Humanities)
• National Support School
• Entrepreneurial, innovative and risk taking
What do we use?• JoomlaJoomla based web site as a portal- log in integrated with
MicroSoft Windows Active Directory usernames/ passwords
• Includes features like flipping book flipping book e-magazine
• Exchange Server/ Outlook email for all staff and students
• Integration with IP telephony IP telephony giving features like web access to voice mail
• Management Information System: Serco Facility CMIS
• VLE MoodleMoodle (with a link to MIS) and MaharaMahara e-portfolios
• Gleamtech web access Gleamtech web access to ‘my documents’ and all shared directories such as curriculum resources, staff admin folders with key word search tool search tool (without need for tagging)
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Ubuntu and EdubuntuAlan Bell, The Open Learning Centre
Freedom all the way down
“Our aim is to put together a system that contains all the best free software
available in education and make it easy to install and maintain”
What is Edubuntu?
A collection of great applications
A firm foundation on which they are based
A community of educators
The Applications
(just a few of them)
The FoundationsEdubuntu is built on Ubuntu which provides:
Package management
Automatic updates
Networking
Integration with Active Directory
Terminal Services
Access to thousands of general purpose applications
Community
Global community of educators working with and working on Edubuntu
Communication via mailing lists and weekly real time meetings on IRC
Developer summit every six months
Web Live
Free trial on the web
http://edubuntu.org/vmmanager
Virtual cloud based desktop
Lasts for two hours
Where can we take it?
Edubuntu is a global project
It is open to contributions
We can adapt it to the UK environment
Translate to English converting -ize to -ise
National Curriculum
Thin ClientsThin Clients
Portable Kit
Open Source Schools
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To find out more…
opensourceschools.org.uk
@mberry, @dwillmot20, @paulhaigh, @alanbelltolc
School Leaders Conference, 12th April
Techie Unconference, Summer