Hi!

[Jesse Griffin]

The Eaton School District, in Eaton, Colorado uses Ubuntu and open source
software throughout much of their district.  I've cc'ed them on this email,
you may want to get in contact with them.


Jesse Griffin


On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Diane Leikvold <
dleikvold at longmontchristian.org> wrote:

> Hello Algot, My name is Diane and I am a year old user of Ubuntu.
>
> I am (or was) a teacher in Longmont Colorado.  I started out teaching all
> the HS/Ms computer classes 10 years ago, then brought what I was teaching
> them to elementary. Now i just teach 5th keyboarding and application
> software, but i still manage all the computers throughout the school for
> teachers and two student labs.  Because we are a small private school - not
> a lot of money, i made the decision to go to Ubuntu last year, and I am so
> glad i did.  Of the Labs and teachers, and most of the office people it went
> over very well.  So much faster and easier to use (and Free) then Windows.
> The office manager struggles using it because she likes MS Publisher and i
> can not get that to work in wine.  Also our student management system has
> two version, the web version works great for the teachers, however the
> desktop version I use with Wine and there are some features (emailing) that
> i can't get to work, so they have to use the web version to email.  So for
> the most part it was a very successful year.  I would suggest trying any
> software first before you ever make a school switch over.  One teacher (HS
> Science) his curriculum Prentace Hall came with several pieces of software
> and presentations that was a trick in an half to work within Ubuntu.  We
> finally did make it all work and he is happy.  Also Ubuntu won't support
> Shockwave and there are a few educational websites that still use Shockwave
> and we can't use those sites (IKnowthat.com).  This is more info that you
> were probably wanting, but hope it helps.  PS we have saved thousands of
> dollars going to opensource.  We don't need virus software, and i just
> changed over our firewall/web filtering from SonicWall (yearly support costs
> + appliance) to Untangle (free).
>
> *Is there anyone else out there **in the United States **that teaches or
> their school uses Ubuntu?  *
>
> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Algot Runeman <algot.runeman at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>> On 05/20/2011 08:58 AM, Simón Ruiz wrote:
>>
>>> 2011/5/20 sund<sundmaggie at live.cn>:
>>>
>>>> I am new, so Hi!
>>>>
>>> Hi, sund.
>>>
>>> Welcome aboard!
>>>
>>>  Hello, sund,
>>
>> How are you using Ubuntu? Are you a teacher? Does your school support
>>  your use of open source software?
>> --Algot
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