[mythtv-users] Advice please: school mythtv project

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday 28 April 2010 03:30:25 pm Johnny Walker wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 April 2010 03:01:24 pm Nick Rout wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Phil Wild <philwild at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>>>>> My first thoughts are on legality. Then again IAAL. In NZ law,
> >> >>>>>> which may be different in Oz, it is only legal for A to
> >> >>>>>> time-shift for "A's personal use or the personal use of a member
> >> >>>>>> of the household in which A lives or both"
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> See
> >> >>>> http://www.screenrights.org/copyright/australia/educational-institu
> >> >>>>tio ns/schools.php
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I perhaps should provide a little more info so that people do not
> >> >>> need to go and read the document. In my case, the school is a
> >> >>> catholic school in WA and this screenrights license is in place
> >> >>> through the WA catholic education office allowing the recording,
> >> >>> storing and rebroadcasting within the school of all OTA TV and radio
> >> >>> broadcasts. All government schools in Australia are also covered
> >> >>> under this license. I can't comment on other areas but for my
> >> >>> purposes, this is all legal.
> >> >>
> >> >> good news. I suppose we should deal with your technical questions
> >> >> now...
> >> >>
> >> >> none of which I have any real knowledge of I'm sorry, I hope others
> >> >> can help.
> >> >>
> >> >> One thing though, IM experience teachers are not particularly non
> >> >> techno. They will require a bit of training, and possibly a manual,
> >> >> otherwise you'll be getting calls at all hours...
> >> >
> >> > Ah this I can speak to: enlist the student aides from the Science,
> >> > Computer Science or Media Dept. Training 1 or 2 of them might be very
> >> > helpful even if only for 'remote hands.'
> >>
> >> It's a primary school.
> >
> > Which probably means the students will figure out Myth before most of the
> > faculty does :-)
> 
> and I hear there's a new theme you might want to use.

With all of the budget problems so many school districts are having (at least 
here in the USA) now is the perfect time to introduce them to Open Source 
software. Our local Linux User's Group is already starting to get inquiries 
from several schools in Colorado.

I hadn't thought of Myth as something they might be interested in, but now 
that I think about it it seems like a good fit for many schools.