<p>I agree with the notion. At best - the school headmaster will ask you what to open it with, and how would the students with ms office would handle it. This is hopeless, unfortunately. </p>
<p>Ez</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 5, 2012 8:48 AM, "Jonathan Ben Avraham" <<a href="mailto:yba@tkos.co.il">yba@tkos.co.il</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Boaz,<br>
The time is not ripe. Don't waste your energy. Your school principal will not know what you are talking about and will dismiss you as a hopeless geek.<br>
<br>
A slightly more productive line might be to claim that you are no longer using desktop computers - only mobile devices, and for these you need either PDF or Google docs.<br>
<br>
I found that this approach, mobile devices, works. For example, at the American School in Even Yehuda it helped convince teachers to accept and give assignments in PDF or via Google docs. The techers made this head switch about three years ago when the younger students who were the early technology adopters demanded it. It didn't come from the principal, and not from the parents either, both groups being generally clueless.<br>
<br>
- yba<br>
<br>
<br>
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, Boaz Rymland wrote:<br>
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 07:20:39 +0200<br>
From: Boaz Rymland <<a href="mailto:boaz.rymland@gmail.com" target="_blank">boaz.rymland@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: linux-il <<a href="mailto:linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il" target="_blank">linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il</a>><br>
Subject: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats<br>
<br>
Hi all,<br>
I'm about to meet my daughter's school principal on the subject of the formats of documents the school spreads around<br>
routinely, like the weekly schedule. In short - they are using .DOC MS Word format and I don't like it as I cannot<br>
cleanly open those documents on my computer (which runs Ubuntu).<br>
<br>
Although I'm quite old in the Linux world and probably heard over the years most of them - still I prefer having a<br>
refreshment of all the arguments in favor of moving to more open or at least affordable (e.g. PDF) document formats.<br>
<br>
Any pointers/text will be appreciated.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Boaz.<br>
<br>
<br>
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