Hi, since three years I am guiding a Python voluntary workgroup in a school and we are suffering from a badly organized IT environment (a rigidly restricted Windows setting). Most of all we miss a decent VCS as Mercurial or Bazaar. In the official IT classes they never used a VCS so it was never installed. While thinking about this I discovered that some other things are missing. For eg. we cannot install a web framework due to the strange restrictions. They do not have Zotero installed. For students the FF-plugin Zotero would be a great tool to make bibliographies. Does anyone yet compiled a list of things which may not be missing in a perfect IT environment in a school? Perhaps I can lobby some teachers to improve their environment. juh