[ale] Linux Evangelism

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 23:12 -0400, Robert Coggins wrote:
> All,
> 
> I just thought I would share this neat story with you all.  My dad is a 
> teacher and I would consider alightly above average with computers.  He 
> has never used anything but MS.  I kept talking to him about linux and 
> finally I was able to show him something on a knoppix 3.7 CD.  At that 
> time he was having trouble with his windows install.   I showed him how 
> he can use that CD to go in an recover files.  I then showed him some of 
> the programs on there such as open office and kstars. 
> 
> He is a middle school science teacher and ended up using knoppix to 
> teach class using kstars.  He showed his principal and others this and 
> they all ohhed and ahhed.  He is also in a master's program.  They are 
> having some special technology class/presentations.  He is going to use 
> knoppix in his presentation and use openoffice for the presentation.  I 
> thought this was great and thought of you all when he told me about all 
> of this!

WOOHOO!!! Score one for our side!!!!!

It's always great to hear when someone gets impressed with what
opensource can do. It's even better when they are a teacher.

Make him several dozen CDs to give way to his students so they can work
with the same tools at home.

> 
> Rob
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