evolutionaryIT for NPS

[Danny Piccirillo]

Sweet! I contacted evolutionaryIT about the Free Softawre for schools thing
and i just wanted to keep everyone in the loop--

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Joseph Guarino <jguarino at evolutionaryit.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:07 PM
Subject: RE: [General Question] Ubuntu-MA Team
To: danny.piccirillo at gmail.com


Hello Danny,

How are you?  Thanks so much for contacting me!  Yes, Of course I would
be willing help you out on this.  =) I actually am a member of the
Ubuntu Mass Loco but my schedule has been so hectic that I have not been
able to make it for one reason or another.  Additionally I am an ardent
supporter, admin, advocate, financial supporter of FOSS in all forms.
My experience with both the closed and  source world will certainly help
to articulate the supernumerary reasons why they should go with FOSS.
Actually they could go 100% FOSS on the whole solution - networking,
security, firewall, etc. =)  Please do give me a call on my cell number
or shoot me an email and we can figure out what the next steps are to
take.

Also if I end up working on this as a token of appreciation, I will give
you the referral bonus indicated on my website.  If you are not fond of
Apple hardware (neither am I) then I can get something else or put
RockBox on it.  =P  http://referral.evolutionaryit.com  Thanks so much!

Talk to you,
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Joseph Guarino
www.evolutionaryit.com
Evolutionary IT - Best Practice IT(tm)
888.404.5074 (Office)
617.953.9514 (Mobile)
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [General Question] Ubuntu-MA Team
> From: danny.piccirillo at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, March 05, 2008 9:42 am
> To: jguarino at evolutionaryit.com
>
>
> Danny Piccirillo sent a message using the contact form at
> http://www.evolutionaryit.com/contact.
>
> Hello,
>
> My name is Danny Piccirillo of the Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community
Team
> ( www.ubuntu-ma.us ). We are currently trying to convince the Newton
Public
> Schools to consider free software with the technology changes that they
are
> currently planning. We were hoping that you could help us convince them to
> adopt free software solutions and you could offer your services to them as
> well.
>
> Their two main projects are creating a school portal for all of the Newton
> Public Schools (and their respective Parent Teacher Student Organizations)
> for which they are already looking into using Drupal for and offering a
> laptop for each student from grades 6-12. The problem is that they do not
> truly understand free software, why it is better and why it is important.
> They also lack experience with linux.
>
> We were considering putting together a presentation to try to educate them
> but we thought it might be more effective to work with you. I found your
> contact on Ubuntu's list of companies which provide support for Ubuntu.
Our
> main goals are to have them adopt Drupal for the school portal, and put
> Ubuntu or some distro of Linux on all of the laptops. We would also like
to
> convince them to adopt Ubuntu on machines in school computer labs and to
use
> SchoolTool for their student information system which we can worry about
> after our main goals.
>
> Please let me know if you are interested,
> Thank you!
>
> .Danny
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