[ale] Linux Evangelism

[Robert Coggins]

Actually some of them have already requested copies and he is making them!

James P. Kinney III wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 23:12 -0400, Robert Coggins wrote:
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>>All,
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>>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. 
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>>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!
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>WOOHOO!!! Score one for our side!!!!!
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>It's always great to hear when someone gets impressed with what
>opensource can do. It's even better when they are a teacher.
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>Make him several dozen CDs to give way to his students so they can work
>with the same tools at home.
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>>Rob
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