[ubuntu-uk] Swindon school asks for ubuntu help

[Andy Loughran]

Alan,

I'm not in the Swindon area - but would be very interested to hear more
from this person.  I'm also not on the edubuntu lists - any chance you
can post this response to the list for me to pass on my details?

Regards,

Andy Loughran

alan c wrote:
> I see in the edubuntu users list that there is a request for initial 
> help from a school in Swindon - they are considering starting to use 
> ubuntu (edubuntu)
>
> edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>
> I have also pointed them to this uk list, although anyone in this list 
> who is in th eSwindon area might like to be aware?
>
> [extract from edubuntu list]
>  >> 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.
> [end extract]
>