Speaking of OSS in schools

[Steve Kossakoski]

Great idea.  If you're interested, the Great Bay eLearning Charter
School in Exeter (www.gbecs.org) uses Linux/FOSS exclusively.  Also, we
have implemented LTSP terminal servers and associated thin clients in
all of our seven school districts in SAU 16 (Exeter and surrounding
towns...www.sau16.org). Additionally, we're phasing in OpenOffice and
other FOSS applications throughout our district.  If anyone would like
to find out more about our Linux/FOSS implementation please feel free
to contact me off-list.  Also, we'd be happy to host a LUG meeting at
the charter school if you'd like to see Linux/FOSS in action in a
school setting.  Additionally, our professional development center
(www.spdc.org),which serves NH seacoast school districts, is in the
process of developing a training schedule and tutorials to support
implementation of Linux/FOSS in  local districts. A partnership between
schools districts and LUG members could be very powerful.  
Steve 


Star <nhstar at gmail.com> on Thursday, July 07, 2005 at 6:51 PM -0500
wrote:
>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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