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| dadeng | Alan: good morning, the internet link at the guest house was bad yesterday | 14:51 |
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| dadeng | this is David from Nigeria | 14:52 |
| dadeng | aelkner, this is David, my nick is dadeng | 14:58 |
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| weiers_ | Hi, I have some questions about school tool. I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask them, but I'll ask a few in case there are answers or perhaps you could point me in the right direction. | 23:43 |
| weiers_ | I have a family member who has just been appointed as a school principal in a very rural area in South Africa's Eastern Cape. The school has about 400 learners and there is practically no computer information system in place - class lists are done by hands, reports are done by hand etc. | 23:45 |
| weiers_ | The school is not very strong financially and they have come across school tool and would like to know if it is a viable option for them to use | 23:45 |
| weiers_ | I live in Northern Ireland, so I cannot provide hands on help and I am also not the greatest expert | 23:46 |
| weiers_ | I want to send them the following in order to test school tool: | 23:46 |
| weiers_ | An Ubuntu disk | 23:47 |
| weiers_ | A virtualisation package for them to install Ubuntu on their one Windows computer | 23:47 |
| weiers_ | A copy of a stable version of School tool, as well as any dependencies that might have to be installed. | 23:48 |
| weiers_ | If I understand correctly they only have a dial-up internet connection | 23:48 |
| weiers_ | So here are the questions: - and perhaps they are not the best questions | 23:49 |
| weiers_ | 1. Is there anybody in South Africa that uses school tool that would be prepared to share their experience with this school? | 23:49 |
| weiers_ | 2. I don't suppose there is any organisation that would be prepared to give professional advice to the school as they try to address some of these basic needs. | 23:50 |
| weiers_ | 3. Which virtualisation package would be best to test school tool with? I have played with VirtualBox on my Ubuntu system. I guess that would be the best. | 23:51 |
| weiers_ | 4. Let's assume they get Ubuntu installed on a virtual machine and they need to install school tool without access to the internet - what packages should I try to put on the disk for them? (Assuming that they have a basic version of Ubuntu 10.04 running) | 23:53 |
| weiers_ | Hahaha, and I suspect I'm talking into a void :-) Any wisdom would be appreciated. I think I know enough to be dangerous. | 23:53 |
| replaceafill | weiers_, no you're not :) | 23:54 |
| replaceafill | i'm not the right person to answer though | 23:54 |
| weiers_ | ah :-) | 23:54 |
| replaceafill | i guess Tom Hoffman is, or th1a | 23:54 |
| replaceafill | but i guess he's not around | 23:54 |
| weiers_ | I'm happy to be patient. Perhaps I should e-mail him. | 23:55 |
| replaceafill | i'd suggest you to use the mailing list | 23:55 |
| weiers_ | Ok, I can do that | 23:55 |
| replaceafill | i'm also curious about #4 | 23:55 |
| replaceafill | https://launchpad.net/~schooltoolers | 23:55 |
| weiers_ | yes, I'm nervous about that because I can just imagine trying to explain over the phone how to select a cd or a flash drive as a repository | 23:56 |
| replaceafill | :S | 23:56 |
| replaceafill | yes | 23:56 |
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