evolutionaryIT for NPS

[Martin Owens]

Great news, can you organise the event to do a presentation? It would
be great if we can do this soon and offer the local support that
schools need with FOSS.

On 05/03/2008, Danny Piccirillo <danny.piccirillo at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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,
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  Joseph Guarino
>  www.evolutionaryit.com
>  Evolutionary IT - Best Practice IT(tm)
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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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