[ale] Atlanta school converted to Linux by PTA

[James P. Kinney III]

gotta clean up my Thursday schedules...

mutter...

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 14:46 -0500, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> 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:
> 
> -------------------- <begin copied blurb> ----------------------
> 
> 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.
> 
> ----------------------- <end> ---------------------------------
> 
> 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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