[ubuntu-uk] HLUG Open Source Schools Project

[Sarah Chard]

O
n Fri, 2011-07-29 at 18:13 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:

> I'm 
> currently working on a project here in Torbay to provide a couple of
> old 
> laptops to a local Sure Start Centre as a sort of mobile computer
> suite 
> (well 2 laptops and a printer) and maybe something like this would
> work 
> well rather than me re-inventing the wheel :-)
> 
> I'll be sure to forward this e-mail to my local LUG, we have a couple
> of 
> people in our LUG who have some involvement with schools and
> nurseries 
> so maybe of interest to them.
> 

Hi Rob
Tuxedu primary  would definately be good for a surestart centre - it is
ment to be run live and you will not be able to access the internet or
any files on the computer while you are using it - so you can safely let
small children explore - you might want to load lubuntu or ubuntu as the
main OS for adults with full funtionality and have Tuxedu as the option
for when children use them. 

As I said it's still being developed but should be ready fairly soon and
once it is i'll let you know.

We are developing it so that  it can be shared and we will also make
documentation we create for tuxedu and for the schools project generally
available for everyone to share - we are hoping it will be a
straightforward way to get children and teachers involved with and
confident about using open source and moving away from completely
windows based systems.

Sarah





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