[ale] Atlanta school converted to Linux by PTA

[j.t. holmes]

Hooray,
Chalk one up for Linux.

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:
>
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>
>Evangelizing Open Source Benefits for Education
>presented by
>Daniel Howard,
>President and CEO, Quadrock Communications
>./data/Hardware/LinkSysWirelessRouterWRT54G.txt
>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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