I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor -- care to weigh in?

Mark McSweeney mark.mcsweeney at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 20:33:38 EST 2010


Susan

> What about schools that you are connected with? Do they run open-source software?

I believe that the Merrimack Valley School District has a lot of Open
Source deployments from LTSP terminals to using Moodle and other
things.

Back in 2006, Steve Amsden, a network administrator at MV, gave a
presentation about the LTSP deployment.

Hope this helps.

Mark


> From: Susan Cragin <susancragin at earthlink.net>
> To: Ubuntu-NH <ubuntu-us-nh at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:06:28 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
> Subject: I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor -- care to weigh in?
> I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor.
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> Title:  All NH taxpayer-supported computers and systems should run open-source software.
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> I need examples of municipalities, states, and so on, that have switched to open-source successfully, and what they use.
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> Did you use Drupal to put your town's planning-and-zoning information out? Does your library run Koha? Do your municipal workers use Firefox / OpenOffice / Thunderbird?
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> What about schools that you are connected with? Do they run open-source software?
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> Please feel free to cross-post this.
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> The Concord Monitor has in the past given my articles good exposure, the state is desperate to cut costs, and this could be a good thing for open-source.
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> Susan Cragin
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