{"id":77,"date":"2008-06-18T00:11:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T04:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ale.org\/new\/?p=77"},"modified":"2008-06-18T00:12:42","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T04:12:42","slug":"ale-central-for-thursday-june-19-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.org\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"ALE CENTRAL for Thursday, June 19, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

To complement the ALE OSPREX development project,
\nDaniel Howard was invited to share a presentation on his
\nwork in promoting and supporting Linux in educational
\nenvironments. Thus our Thursday, June 19th, 7:30pm
\nALE Central meeting is:
\n
\nBringing Linux to Georgia’s
\nSchools and Communities:
\nAn Update from the Georgia
\nOpen Source Education Foundation <\/font><\/p>\n

with presenter Daniel Howard
\n<\/strong>
\nSynopsis:
\n Building on the success of a 7 school Enterprise LTSP pilot project
\nthat delivered over 2,000 Linux computer systems to Georgia students
\nlast year, Atlanta Public Schools is expanding their comprehensive
\nLinux computer program into at least 30 more schools over the next
\ntwo years. Now Dekalb County schools have also begun a Linux
\nclassroom pilot, while charter schools, community centers, and Boys’
\nand Girls’ Clubs all over Atlanta are discovering why Linux is the
\nsuperior choice for providing reliable, secure, high performance,
\neducation compatible computing with minimized costs and liabilities.
\nA great deal of this success is due to the evangelizing, promotion
\nand support efforts of the Georgia Open Source Education Foundation.
\nCome get an update on how we’re helping bring Linux into schools
\nand communities throughout Georgia one venue at a time, and what
\na difference it’s making to students and non-profit organizations in the
\ngreater Atlanta area.<\/p>\n

Bio:
\n Daniel Howard is a founder and CEO of GOSEF, a non-profit
\ngroup dedicated to promoting and sustaining the use of Open
\nSource Software in public and non-profit institutions through
\nadvocacy, outreach, support, and recycling of donated hardware.
\nHe has been a dedicated Linux evangelist and supporter since
\n2004, when he and William Fragakis established a highly successful
\ncomputer program at his daughter’s elementary school by converting
\naging or dysfunctional Windows classroom PC’s into Linux thin clients
\nusing K12LTSP with dozens of Open Source educational applications.
\nThe substantial improvements in student performance attributed to the
\nLinux technology at Morris Brandon Elementary convinced
\nadministrators to install Linux student computers throughout the
\nAtlanta Public Schools system.<\/p>\n

For more background, see the GOSEF.org<\/a> web site.<\/p>\n

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\nWe will be meeting in our usual Gambrel Hall room 1C venue.
\nMeeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
\nDirections to Emory Law School can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nPS: There may be some Linux \/ ALE related T-Shirts available
\nat the meeting for a nominal donation that will go to a worthy Open
\nSource project. Grab a shirt and say “Linux” wear-ever you go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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