Some of the people teaching 1306 (to call them Profs would be an exaggeration, as many are contract teachers, mostly part time and not qualified for academic appointments, though often quite dedicated) have been heard to insist on the use of M$ stuff. In the Telfer School, my own policy was to ask pointedly that students NOT be required to buy any particular software. We used Minitab as the "base" tool in the statistics course, but I made sure students knew that they only had to be able to interpret the output, and could use things like R or Octave for their computations. Further, that while students might be asked to submit material in .doc or .xls, since unfortunately many offices require the use of such formats, how they prepared them should not be prescribed. For my own courses, I used pdf as means of submission, and provided copious information on how it could be prepared without buying Acrobat. JN On 09/21/2011 03:41 AM, Jeffrey Moncrieff wrote: > I do not know if Ottawa U has change it polices regarding Open source technology. But a couple of years ago I was taking a course (CSI 1306) and I was told I could only hand in my assignments in Microsoft Office formats. I brought Ms Office then couple of week went by. Then my pride got the best of me. I said to self wait a minute I signed up for a course that supportively support Open source Technology and if hand my assignments with open office I get penalize, I was going to go to the student union with this issue. I had a family issue come up and I did not pursue my studies and this issue. I am going back to school next year in BC and I hope I will be able to use my Openoffice and other open source technology > > > > Jeffrey Dean Moncrieff > Moncrieff consulting IT > Vancouver/Ottawa > jeffrey [ dot ] moncrieff [ at ] yahoo [ dot ] ca > > > ________________________________ > From: John C Nash <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca> > To: Carson Wilcox <community [ at ] cssa-aei [ dot ] ca> > Cc: linux [ at ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 9:08:24 AM > Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Throwing a Linux Event for Students, would you like to attend? > > I'm sure some of us can come. I'll be there for an hour or so -- unfortunately I am > calling a dance that night in Kanata, so won't be able to stay full time. > > Best, > > John Nash (retired uOttawa prof.) > > On 09/19/2011 04:45 PM, Carson Wilcox wrote: >> Hello, >> >> My name is Carson Wilcox and I am the VP Community for the Computer Science >> Student Association at the University of Ottawa. I am going to be running an >> event called *Back to School with Linux* on the *30th of September, 2011. *The >> event will be held in the SITE/EECS building (*800 King Edward drive room J >> 0109*) at *16:00h-19:00h*. The aim of the event is to allow students to get >> Linux installed on their computers. We will be supporting Ubuntu, Fedora and >> OpenSUSE as they are the most popular personal operating systems (and some >> of the easiest to install), but we will also provide limited support for any >> other flavour of Linux that is brought to the event. >> >> I was hoping that your group might be interested enough to send a >> representative or two to talk about what you do in Ottawa and join in the >> installation fun! >> >> Please let me know what level of participation (if any) you can provide. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux mailing list >> Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux