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Re:Sell to Teachers on Sunday September 18, 2011 @11:56PM (#3012163)
We have found the opposite - teachers will pay for software if it is made well and makes their life easier. The price point obviously still needs to be set appropriately.

Life was very busy when I was teaching, anything that saves time on busy work is appreciated.

Re:Sell to Teachers on Sunday September 18, 2011 @11:43PM (#3012136)
We focus on this strategy for Termites (http://termitesapp.com) and it works well.

The purchase process at the school or district level can be glacial slow.

Re:Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @09:57PM (#2515907)
The crap results were probably due to the soldering messing around with the crystal properties. Using a pressure-contacts approach instead seemed to do the trick:

http://tinyrock.com/resources/4000918/Bandgap-Measurements-I...

Has it really been 10 years!

I use it once every couple of weeks to tweak seating plans for my classes as I discover new relationships between the kids.

Desktop software because the SA algorithm placed too much load on the server, it started off as a Ruby web-app. Also desktop because most school networks have pretty draconian filtering in place.

Would love some feedback, especially on ways to market this software.

I know, desktop software, how 2001 :)

Cheers, Richard