Hello, cross posting to two lists. I noticed a little press release that Apple had won a contract to provide the state of Maine with 36000 computers for their grade 7 and 8 students and teacher (<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/03/22.9.shtml>... this is good for battling the Windows hegemony). In their bid, Apple provides the standard suite of Apple software (of course), and some other really cool educational software (not all cool software has to be open source), but, what's noteworthy is that there are two open source packages included in the list of software provided by Apple (http://www.maine.gov/mlti/rfp/index.htm): GRASS GIS (a geographic information system) and NeoOffice (OpenOffice.org). What's impressive is that Apple considers these two apps stable enough and user-friendly enough to include on a platform for young teens*. *And... if they think GRASS is easy enough for 12 and 13 year olds to learn I might just be able to learn it as well ;-) (I know ArcView GIS and MapInfo and am curious to see how GRASS compares). Eric. _________________________________________________ For information concerning the MUGLO List just click on http://www.freewebs.com/muglo/joinus.html Our Archives can be viewed at //www.freelists.org/archives/muglo Don't forget to periodically check our web site at: http://www.freewebs.com/muglo/