[ale] Atlanta school converted to Linux by PTA

[aaron]

On Thursday 09 March 2006 20:11, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> gotta clean up my Thursday schedules...
> mutter...

No need to mutter!
You may still get a chance to take in the meeting! :-)

I have the ALE February 2006 Central meeting prex. recorded on video.
Daniel Howard has forwarded me his Impress presentation slides as
well. I intend to package and post these for distribution, probably as a
DVD like December's Scalix prex., but haven't had the hours to do so
in the past few weeks -- so far, most all of my 'free' time in 2006 has
been allocated to activist work and lobbying at the Capital against
Georgia's installation of Diebold invisible ballot, computerized vote fraud
machines.  (more info on this pending... in the meanwhile please see: 
<http://www.DefendersOfDemocracy.com> )

peace
aaron



> 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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