<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Thanks Matthew! That would be wonderful.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'> From: lyematt@gmail.com [mailto:lyematt@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Lye Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 7:11 AM To: Mohammad Usman Butt Cc: ubuntu-education@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Edubuntu in Pakistan<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> I work in a University managing about 50 odd labs running custom built Ubuntu images, Ill ask and and see if I can get permission to give you the documentation from the development. Even if that is not possible, I can give you help on anything you need.<o:p></o:p> </div> -Matthew Lye You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and and endless supply of expendable labor. <No tree's were harmed during this transmission. However, a great number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced> <o:p></o:p> <div> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Simón Ruiz <<a href="mailto:simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com">simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Mohammad Usman Butt <<a href="mailto:usman@twenty4seven.com.pk">usman@twenty4seven.com.pk</a>> wrote: > Hi Simon, > > We are working on the IT Labs project for The Govt. of Punjab. There are a > total of 4500 (approx.) labs at the primary and secondary school level.. We > are basically from a Telecom background and have a very large deployment > with all the telecom companies operating here (servicing 90 million people > with about 50 different services). Right now we are working very > successfully with speech recognition. That's quite a large deployment! I myself work for a small independent school in the United States; we have about 900 students, K-12, and 4 computer labs of about 20 computers a piece (though most of our computers are in places other than labs). > The path ahead looks pretty rough as far as Edubuntu is concerned. When you > are dealing with government red tape and ancient ideas implanted by > marketing companies such as MS! But they (MS) might have shot themselves in > the foot this time by being greedier than usual and asking for full > licensing fees for everything even though this is a public service project > targeting rural and areas/students. I see. In our situation, money doesn't really enter into it as much. Our biggest hurdle, I think, has been inertia. People just don't like change. > My development team is very good but shorthanded and we will be asking for > help from you all, if you guys don't mind :-) Hey, we're here to help each other. Just ask. > Best Regards, > > M. Usman Butt Take care! Simón -- ubuntu-education mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-education@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-education@lists..ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-education" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-education</a><o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>