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It seems reasonable to assume that on Thursday 02 October 2003 14:58, peter.walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I would be very interested in getting involved with the ECDL stuff. Good. I think there might be scope for a brief meeting at some time, but the actual authoring should be possible as a distributed job. > Are we aiming at the learners currently working on MS based courses who > will have no experience of Linux? Are we aiming at people currently > using Linux who want ECDL and would prefer to get it on Linux? And at people who have not yet decided to do ECDL, do not have a copy of Microsoft Office of their own, and when the time comes to do a course present a green field to any provider. > I think there are far more people in the first camp. Most of these will > either just want to learn enough to get ECDL or will have specific > applications (eg. Word Processing) that they want to learn. As most of > the ECDL modules (3-7) are based around specific applications I don't > think there will be much problem developing material provided we select > an application that matches ECDL's syllabus. I think that the OpenOffice > suite would be a good candidate. Yes. The data-handling aspects of it are interesting - ODBC and so on. > For Module 2 we need to pick a desktop > as an example, I think it should be capable of performing most if not > all the syllabus requirements from the GUI (I don't think most people > will want to see the command line at this stage). Concur. I can see the command line bits as offshoots in the hypertext, from each piece of doing it by GUI.. -- From the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.