[ale] Palladium/MS: ideas for retaliation

[Tom & JaVonn]

Dow:

I volunteered to help Lassiter High last year, and the national contact replied to Lassiter with a cc to me.  When I got no response from Lassiter, I emailed directly.  No response again !

Linux marketing is SO NEEDED, and I've tried to locate any serious coordinated efforts since pre-XP release last fall.  Total frustration.

LET'S GET SOMETHING ROLLING...

Tom

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:04:04 -0400
Dow Hurst <dhurst at kennesaw.edu> wrote:

> I remember wegrow.org, except that was an out of state LUG helping 
> Lassiter High School.  They asked for some local help but this was 
> before the job/market crunch.  Lot's of projects got hit hard by the "in 
> the trench" Linux guys being laid off.  Many people are still not able 
> to donate lot's of time or money since the market has not recovered. 
>  I'll be interested to see what the people at Lassiter say.
> Dow
> 
> 
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> > Dow Hurst wrote:
> >
> > > Geoffrey, do you have any comments on this?
> >
> > You know I've got something to say. :)
> >
> > I'm all for leveraging Linux, but I'll share some realities here.  I 
> > assume were talking elementary/middle/high school.  Correct me if I'm 
> > wrong.  Anway, as my wife is a teacher in an elementary school I've 
> > got some insights into these issues, at least as far as Cobb County 
> > goes.  I assure you the best you will do is replace server 
> > environments at this level.  Currently Cobb County uses Novel Netware, 
> > so they're not totally M$ shop.
> >
> > Because of the investment in software these school systems have, and 
> > the comfort level the average teacher has with M$ environment, you 
> > won't be able to touch the computers in the classroom or labs.
> >
> > Now, if we're talking servers, yeah, we know that can be done, so I'm 
> > game.  Question is, where to start?  Who do we talk to?
> >
> > There is a web site regarding just such an approach here in Georgia, 
> > unfortunately, it's either gone or unavailable.  The site was 
> > http://www.wegrow.org/   (wegrow - Where Educators Get Rid Of Windows) 
> > Searching Google, there's references to the site in the google cache. 
> > There's a reference to Lassiter High School. There are a couple of 
> > email addresses there, I'm going to send them email and see what's up 
> > with their efforts.
> >
> > I'll post more once I hear from the wegrow folks.
> >
> >
> >
> 
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