[ale] Atlanta school converted to Linux by PTA

[Sean Kilpatrick]

On Thursday 09 March 2006 14:23, James P. Kinney III wrote:
| Yes, you read the subject line correctly! Apparently, there is one
| school in the Atlanta Public School System that was converted to almost
| entirely Linux by its PTA.

James,
did you, perhaps, miss the Feb. Ale Central meeting? <grin>
  This blurb was taken from the ALE web page:

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Evangelizing Open Source Benefits for Education
presented by
Daniel Howard,
President and CEO, Quadrock Communications

After years of frustration trying to keep Windows legacy computers
functioning at Morris Brandon Elementary School, two parent volunteers
recommended to the principal and the PTA leadership that the school move
to a Linux thin client server system employing the K12-LTSP package. The
proposal was accepted, with the result that all of the school?s computers 
are now fully functional and over 50 donated PC?s have been converted into
useful Linux thin clients. Some of the teachers are now considering what
they could do with a computer for every student. Initially, the school
district technology personnel staunchly opposed the system, but they have
become believers after observing the success and benefits of using open
source software first hand.

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Someone said at that meeting that the IT dept. for the Atlanta School
Board (which had fought the idea throughout the process) now considers
this experiment a "proof of concept" and is willing to try it in other
schools.

Sean

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