Speaking of OSS in schools

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Okay, call it a fit of inspriation (thank you Brian!).  I ran out an
registered linuxinschools.[com, net, info] (org was taken), and I
offer it for the following:

How would a group as knowledgable and as talented as the GNHLUG or
~any~LUG package, market, and sell (as in convince) Linux to towns and
cities for use in their school systems?  I can go and find a dozen
HOWTOs (including linuxinschools.org), but it's a ~lot~ harder to find
a WHYTO anywhere.

If anyone is interested in volunteering for this project with me, let
me know.  I can provide space, etc to get a site started, though b/w
is a home connection (768k up) so it couldn't live there past concept.

any takers?


On 7/7/05, Brian <gnhlug at karas.net> wrote:
> Ripped from the headlines of /.:
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4642461.stm
> 
> 
> How schools can get free software
> school computer room
> Schools' computer costs have been rising
> The UK government's school computing agency, Becta, has said schools could
> save costs by switching to what is known as open source software.
> 
> In open source software (OSS), the underlying computer code is freely
> available so users can alter it and publish new versions, to benefit the
> community.
> 
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