[ale] teaching opportunity

[Mike Millson]

Yes, it was an embarrassment for ALE.

Mike

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 11:57, George Carless wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 08:30:14AM -0400, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> > I believe we have effectively run off the teacher lady...... I say we give the job
> > to the senior in high school.
> 
> Unfortunately, while I understand the rationale behind the responses that she was 
> given, I think that this list came across as rather arrogant and overbearing.  
> Result: another person put off running Linux, and upset by the Linux community.  
> There might well be good reasons for running the course on a Windows platform - say, 
> because the training centre wasn't currently geared up for running Linux, or because 
> some element of what they have in place for training currently requires Linux 
> software.  Either way, it can be useful to move people towards free software - PHP, 
> MySQL, etc. - on a gradual basis, and it's not necessarily essential or even 
> advisable to introduce people to these things on a platform that is alien to them.  
> And I would suggest that the individual was likely looking for an instructor to set 
> at least part of the curriculum, so while the description of the course may have been 
> ambitious and perhaps inaccurate, this was hardly a reason for an all-out offensive.
> 
> In short, I think that some of you have simply succeeded in coming across as rather 
> immature elitists who would prefer an argument to a constructive effort to actually 
> move people over to using free software.  Ms. Bell repeatedly indicated that further 
> discussion could take place off-list with any interested parties, and I honestly 
> cannot blame her if she didn't want to get embroiled in a flamewar on some frankly 
> rather pedantic points.
> 
> --George
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