[Edu-sig] The perfect IT environment in a school

[Jan Ulrich Hasecke]

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