[CoLoCo] Another school considering open source

Brett Alton brett.jr.alton at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 01:45:14 GMT 2009


I was just commenting on the lact of documentation for the Education
section on the main Ubuntu website and I was directed to this page by
fellow users: http://www.ubuntu.com/education.

Should give you good introduction information.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Jeffrey LePage
<jeffrey_lepage at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
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> As some of you know, I recently converted a local charter school (Free Horizon Montessori in Arvada CO) to open source.
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> Well, another school in the Golden area is considering switching to open source.  It's a small K-7 charter school, and they just got a big technology grant.  They like the idea of open source, but they don't know a lot about it.  They want to make the switch, but they're worried about how they'll support legacy windoze software, whether or not firefox/linux will work with the school district's admin websites, etc.
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> They want me to help come up with a technology plan, and so I'm throwing this out to the community:
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> Do you want to help?
> Do you have suggestions?
> Are you ready to show them the greatness of the open source community?
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