What a pitty!
I recieved this message yesterday on my email @univ-ubs.fr :
(English spoken person are invited to read the summary at the bottom - context: with the term of the university year in France, the period is propice for lectures and other presentations)
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X-Accept-Language: fr-fr, frL’utilisation de materiels personnels modifie le reglage des video projecteurs et peut creer des perturbations dans le deroulement des soutenances. Pour cette raison , il vous est expressement demande de vous conformer aux regles suivantes:
- La presentation du travail de stage se fait en utilisant le materiel mis a disposition par l’IUP uniquement.
- La presentation Powerpoint doit etre sous forme .pps, sur disquette. La version disponible a l’IUP est Office XP.
- En aucun cas il ne doit y avoir de branchement de materiel personnel (portable ou autre) sur le video projecteur.
- Lorsque l’etudiant a prevu une demonstration utilisant du materiel personnel, elle doit se faire sans utiliser le video projecteur.
Merci de respecter ces regles
En: Administrative people in my Uni told students not to use their own laptop because according to them, it breaks video-projector installed at Uni. Administrative people ask students to use Microsoft PowerPoint. Administrative people ask students not to use a video-projector when they need to made a demo of their work.
In other words, I do not have the right to use pdfLatex in my Uni! I do not have the freedom to use anything except M$ plateform. I do not have the right to bring my laptop with Debian! I do not have the right to bring a video projector with me.
This kind of thing is really sad and and make me perplex. I do not really know how to educate so close-minded person. If you have an idea of what should be done, please fill free to drop me an email or post a comment to the following post.
June 20th, 2004 at 5:10 pm
Well at my school they asked to send in my abstract as a word document. So I politely send them a mail back explaining that word documents were a closed format (with links and stuff) and that as a GNU/Linux user I did not have (nor wanted) acces to M$ Word. So I kindly asked them to pay me a windows and M$ Office license or let me send it as a pdf. Apparently it wasn’t worth the expense and I was allowed to send it as a pdf file.
And laptops giving projectors troubles? No way. They were made to do that. Get a mail from a Barco guy to back you…
June 20th, 2004 at 6:42 pm
“close-minded” ;)
July 5th, 2004 at 9:57 pm
It’s not personal laptop that breaks video-projector, it’s the people who don’t know how to use them. I think you should say that floppy disk with ppt files should propagate some virus.