[ale] A Real Sad Loss for Open Source in the Atlanta Area

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

>   In a former life I was an accountant in Hotels that probably have
> budgets not better than schools.  I became a spreadsheet power user simply
> because we didn’t have programmers – you’d be amazed what you can do with
> macros in built in HAL programming in Lotus 123.   Since I made the move to
> full time IT before M$ had started giving away Excel I’m not sure how good
> it is in this regard but I’d be surprised if it didn’t do as much (now).
> My guess is there ARE power users in schools simply because they had to be
> to get anything done without 50 committees and a session before the school
> board.
>
>
>
> Not saying this wasn’t a stupid decision – just arguing the power user
> point.
>

my exposure to schools (APS and Dekalb county) have shown "Power user" to be
an authority figure not a highly capable technophile.

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> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *Jim
> Kinney
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:03 PM
> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> *Subject:* Re: [ale] A Real Sad Loss for Open Source in the Atlanta Area
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>
> You're probably right. For some people that's "HTML" but it's not.
>
> I find it hard to believe there are "power users" of excel in any school
> system.
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Brian Stanaland <brian at stanaland.org>
> wrote:
>
> The article doesn't say but I'd put dollars to donuts that "learning
> management system" has a Sharepoint back end. Ensuring continued use
> of Microsoft's crap.
>
> --Brian
>
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