[ubuntu-florida] who's using Edubuntu?

[Matthew L. Avizinis]

Thanks for all the input -- although as this poster indicates some of it
was off topic and I still have only one school name that might have
installed Edubuntu (I am quite the Linux evangelist but that's not
always enough and it seems reasonable anyhow that they would want to see
how someone else has done).  If I get my friends at this school to go
with this system I think I'll start an Edubuntu wiki "who's using it?"
page to make this easier in the future.

At any rate, the school's computers are at least 10yo Macs which are
stationary, quite bulky and consume quite a bit of power.  If my
proposal moves to the next stage (soon), I will demonstrate a live
system for them (I've demoed a live-cd system which was a little slow
because it was running on the cd of course).  They want to create a
system with some mobile units and some fixed location units.  I have
proposed the Edubuntu OS running on a server with n Devon IT Safebook,
WYSE, or Neoware (or similar, haven't completely decided yet) clients
and fixed units comprised of 17" or 19" LCD monitors with HP clients
mounted on back connected by wireless (~ $400/each station).
The whole system with a robust server setup + 35 - 50 clients should
cost < $25,000 and be easy to maintain (I have network guy who is very
good at his job).  We have experience with client Linux systems and it
is not difficult, particularly Edubuntu.
Finally, although the XO (OLPC or whatever they finally decide to call
it) is simply not sufficient for the tasks this school wants to
accomplish.   Not to mention they can't even decide how they want to
market it (apparently).
Matthew

Linux Souls wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 18:15 -0400, Casey Doran wrote:
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>> Now can we please return to the topic at hand? OLPC is a viable option
>> by all means, but we should probably try to help this school avoid
>> buying all sorts of new hardware. Edubuntu works with what they have
>> NOW, if a little dependent on copland. 
>>     
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> Here are a couple of links that might be helpful: 
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> http://www.citidc.com/doc/casestudies/CITI_AHC_OpenSourceCaseStudy.pdf
> http://en.opensuse.org/Education
> http://www.schoolforge.net/
> http://www.schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/Case_Studies
> http://k12ltsp.org/casestudy.html
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> Over here not far from where I live there is a school in Rockledge
> called St. Mary's. Their entire computer lab is running on really old
> hardware and they are taking advantage of the LTSP (linux terminal
> server project, which I put for the benefit of others that may be
> reading this and are unaware of LTSP). I believe that they are using
> either the debian educational distro, or maybe by this time using
> edubuntu. 
>
> Hope some of this helps, You were right about finding specifics, it is
> pretty difficult to narrow down case studies that pertain to your goals,
> even though word of mouth we've all heard about schools doing it.
>
> Chris aka ITnet7
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