[CoLoCo] Another school considering open source

[Andrew]

saw this today. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7847377.stm

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Matt Burkhardt <mlb at imparisystems.com>wrote:

>  I'll help!
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> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 16:18 -0800, Jeffrey LePage wrote:
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> 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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