School in Swindon considering going Linux!

[Dermot Mc Laughlin]

Thanks again for the links! The support is great. I didn't know about the
Birmingham conference. One for the diary!

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:00 PM, <edubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com>wrote:

> Send edubuntu-users mailing list submissions to
>        edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
>        https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
>        edubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
>        edubuntu-users-owner at lists.ubuntu.com
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of edubuntu-users digest..."
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
>   1. Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux! (alan c)
>   2. Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux! (John Ingleby)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:11:17 +0000
> From: alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com>
> Subject: Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux!
> To: Dermot Mc Laughlin <dermotmc at gmail.com>
> Cc: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <49366955.7040708 at candt.waitrose.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>
> alan c wrote:
> > Dermot Mc Laughlin wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >> I have only recently subscribed to this list and have been impressed
> with
> >> the level of support that it has provided. I am the head of Business
> Studies
> >> and ICT at Greendown Community school in Swindon and I'm also charged
> with
> >> ICT Strategic Management. I'm new to the job and have a little bit of
> Linux
> >> experience. I have talked to the schools senior leaders and the network
> >> manager here and people are certainly interested in the school
> >> clients/servers being switched to open source (for cost reasons
> initially).
> >> In fact, I'm slowly introducing the idea to staff and students already.
> >>
> >> The network manager and I would love to come by to meet up with people
> on
> >> this list to discuss feasibility. Can you let me know when the next such
> >> event is happening? We would need a fair bit of help getting ourselves
> >> skilled up and we would be regular posters on this list.
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >> Dermot Mc Laughlin
> >
> > Hi Dermot
> > Welcome!
> > I am in bracknell, and although I am not skilled at edubuntu use in
> > particular, I am a regular user of ubuntu and edubuntu (workstations),
> > and I would be happy to assist in some of my free time.
> >
> > May I suggest that you consider also to joint the UK ubuntu users list?
> > ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
>
>
> Dermot:
> Since the time of the original post, there have been offers of help
> from people local to Swindon on the above list (ubuntu-uk), so it will
> be worth while you joining that list.
> --
> alan cocks
> Ubuntu user #10391
> Linux user #360648
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:54:44 +0000
> From: John Ingleby <john at coronet.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux!
> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <1228305284.9025.13.camel at sabre>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
>
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:06:22 +1000
> > From: Mike <mdurhamesq at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: School in Swindon considering going Linux!
> > Cc: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Message-ID: <493524BE.4000902 at gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> >
> > Dermot Mc Laughlin wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I have only recently subscribed to this list and have been impressed
> > > with the level of support that it has provided. I am the head of
> > > Business Studies and ICT at Greendown Community school in Swindon and
> > > I'm also charged with ICT Strategic Management. I'm new to the job and
> > > have a little bit of Linux experience. I have talked to the schools
> > > senior leaders and the network manager here and people are certainly
> > > interested in the school clients/servers being switched to open source
> > > (for cost reasons initially). In fact, I'm slowly introducing the idea
> > > to staff and students already.
> > >
> > > The network manager and I would love to come by to meet up with people
> > > on this list to discuss feasibility. Can you let me know when the next
> > > such event is happening? We would need a fair bit of help getting
> > > ourselves skilled up and we would be regular posters on this list.
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Dermot Mc Laughlin
> > >
>
> Dermot,
>
> I invite you to look over the Schoolforge-UK website at
>
> http://www.schoolforge.org.uk
>
> and join the SF-UK discussion list
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/sf-uk-discuss
>
> On the website you'll see there is a FLOSSIE conference (Free, Libre and
> Open Source Software In Education) being organised in Birmingham (UK) on
> 12th-13th February 2009, which will be *the* place to meet teachers and
> IT staff from UK schools using FLOSS.
>
> Look forward to meeting you!
>
> John Ingleby
> ICT Teacher
> Rudolf Steiner School
> Kings Langley
> WD4 8EX
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> --
> edubuntu-users mailing list
> edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
>
>
> End of edubuntu-users Digest, Vol 31, Issue 4
> *********************************************
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-users/attachments/20081203/7485e565/attachment.htm