[ale] Open Source in schools

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On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 09:13:59AM -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen,

> We have an opportunity to possibly affect the DeKalb County school
> system's purchasing. There is an open hearing on the school system's
> budget. There are two meetings scheduled. One is for April 16 the other
> is for April 30. 

If you go, I'll go to the one on the 16th.  (I'll be speaking in Toronto
on the 30th.)  Post "when & where" and dirs.

I'm a DeKalb taxpayer but I'm not allowed to vote there.  (Didn't we
fight a war over this a few hundred years ago?)

> After the fiasco of the DoJ vs. Microsoft, RedHat offered up a better
> solution than the Redmond remedy,
>  http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/press/2001/press_usschools/

> I know there are others on this list that would argue for distro X or Y
> or Z, and those arguments have merit.

> But RedHat made the offer (not SUSE, not Mandrake, not Slackware or any
> others), they are financially in pretty good shape, and they have name
> recognition outside the geek realms of LUGs. 

> I will be getting a copy of the budget from the school system and
> digging out the IT license line item. I will also be contacting RedHat
> to make arrangement to get a document offering the package to DeKalb
> County Schools as per their public offer in the URL above.

> If anyone is willing to pitch-in on this, please contact me ASAP as time
> is short and I also have to work.

> Also, this group has talked often about getting a school going on Linux.
> I have, unfortunately, been unable to attend the school-Linux sessions
> that occurred in Kennesaw. I am asking for the assistance of that group
> of Linux'ers in a vague way to perhaps manage to provide some admin
> assistance to the school system in setting up this process. I'm not sure
> how to put it, but I know that the schools will need help. Half the PC's
> in my daughters middle school are offline at any given time due to
> software problems. I know a Linux kiosk computer setup would solve that
> problem.

> Also, if there are any DeKalb County residents (i.e. TAXPAYERS!) who
> would like to see their property tax better spent in the schools, please
> attend the meetings.

> April 16 7:30 pm
> DeKalb High School of Technology south campus
> 3303 Panthersville Rd. Decatur

> April 30 7:30 pm
> Georgia Perimeter College central campus
> Jim Cherry Learning Resources Auditorium
> 555 North Indian Creek Dr. Clarkston

> The budget is expected to be approved by the school board at the second
> meeting. So the first meeting is the crucial one to get the gears
> spinning. 

> -- 
> James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
> CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
> Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
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