[CoLoCo] Ubuntu in schools

Fri May 3 04:22:10 UTC 2013

Diane, your work at Longomont Christian School with Ubuntu is fantastic.  Given the number of schools in the world, there are not many stories like that in the world that I know, and I hope your pioneering work spreads.

But you do hove good company, including schools in Andalusia in Spain use Ubuntu on over 500,000 machines(!) and over 28,000 in Assam India.  See e.g. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Education/UbuntuSchools.

Key goal of marketing: get the word out!  So thanks for posting that to the whole list!  I hope it inspires us all to help you, to help promote Ubuntu in education elsewhere, and to find others who can help as well.

Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/

On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 01:11:53PM -0600, Emma Marshall wrote:
>    Diane,
>    We're all happy to hear your passion for Ubuntu and it was such a pleasure
>    meeting you and hearing about your school!
>    I'll respond to your other email with some ideas:)
>    Happy Thursday!
>    Emma
> 
>    On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Diane Leikvold
>    <[1]dleikvold at longmontchristian.org> wrote:
> 
>      oops, i did not mean that to go to the Ubuntu community, just to Emma
> 
>      On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Diane Leikvold
>      <[2]dleikvold at longmontchristian.org> wrote:
> 
>        Hi Emma, thank you for hosting the Release Party! It was great getting
>        to know you and learning about your position at System 76.ï¿½
>        Before the party I have been praying and contemplating whether I
>        should continue my position at the school, or whether to venture out
>        into something different but still in some way promote and utilize
>        Ubuntu. ï¿½I really love Ubuntu and I get so excited where are school
>        has gone in the last 3 years switching from Windows to Ubuntu. ï¿½I have
>        gottenï¿½discouragedï¿½because the person to markets the school and gives
>        tours doesn't share in myï¿½enthusiasmï¿½ ï¿½After listening to my self the
>        other night, I realized, God has me where I need to be and I need to
>        continue to share Ubuntu with our parents and the Longmont community.
>        ï¿½Iï¿½trulyï¿½believe what we have here is pretty awesome! I have 26
>        teachers, most were ï¿½technology challenged and fearful, but they all
>        love using Ubuntu and are doing so well. ï¿½I have over 120
>        laptops/desktopsï¿½dispersedï¿½throughout the school all installed with
>        Ubuntu. ï¿½ I would love to get the word out to Canonical and Boulder
>        County but don't know how to market it the right way. ï¿½Would you have
>        time to help me get the word out? ï¿½
>        I was justï¿½reminiscing looking up my previous inventories an
>        technology plansï¿½from when i stated here -in 2000ï¿½
>        2000-2001 ï¿½(12 computers)ï¿½Dial-upï¿½service, 9 computers in a hs lab, 3
>        computers in the office (Secretary, attendance office person, hs
>        counselor)
>        2001-2002 (22 computers) Qwest DSL 15 computers in hs lab, 7 for
>        office/staff
>        2004 (32 computers) HS YB lab 5, HS computer lab 13, MS teachers 4, HS
>        teachers 7, Office 6, misc 3)
>        2009 (63 computer) running Windows 2000
>        2010 Started using Ubuntu, (63 computers)
>        2011 2nd year using Ubuntu, 90 computers
>        2012 3rd year, 122 computers
>        Anyway, sorry I got off the subject, but let me know what you think
>        about getting the word out what we are doing here.
>        You can call me at [3]720 937-9321
> 
>        On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Emma Marshall
>        <[4]emmamarshall54 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>          Happy Monday!ï¿½
>          The plans are set for the Colorado LoCo Raring Release Party! For
>          reservation purposes, we had to choose Sunday April 28th at 6 p.m.
>          at our FAVORITE gathering place- Rock Bottom Brewery. We will be in
>          a different room this time with working wifi! Please join the group
>          in the "Beer Garden" room if you plan on attending.
>          I'll be presenting some awesome new features of 13.04 on the TV and
>          I promise to bring an HDMI cable :)
>          Would anyone else want to present any projects you're working on and
>          show the amazing power of Ubuntu in action?
>          I'll post the event on our social accounts and update the wiki
>          tomorrow. Let me know if you have any questions. I hope to see you
>          all there!
>          Cheers,
>          Emma
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