[ubuntu-us-mn] ubuntu-us-mn Digest, Vol 9, Issue 4

[David Groos]

Hi All,
This is my first post so I'd like to start out by saying thanks for advocating for this great open source software and forming a community here in Minnesota.  I became first interested in Ubuntu because of a friend advocating for its use as the os for a computer running a Plone server for my classroom.  I'm a teacher and long time Mac user who wants to bring networks of computers into science classrooms in the Minneapolis Public Schools.  However, financially it's not possible so I'm going to try creating a thin client network in my classroom as a model.  The district is donating a good server and a bunch of pentium III's that are being decommissioned.

While I'm hopeful that this is a viable option and hope to prove that to the district, I know that with any technology there are always tons of tiny glitches as one tries to push things beyond the basic.  This is a long way of asking, if I brought the server and a pentium to the launch of the hardy heron is there anyone that could help me install and attempt to set up the HP server as an Edubuntu 8.0.4 thin client server and the PIII as a thin client?  Thanks and looking forward to meeting others on Saturday,
Sincerely,
David


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Today's Topics:

   1.  Upcoming campaigns (Tony Yarusso)


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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:03:17 -0500
From: "Tony Yarusso" <tonyyarusso at gmail.com>
Subject: [ubuntu-us-mn] Upcoming campaigns
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With our upcoming event (Reminder: It won't happen unless you step up and
organize and advertise it!!), this would be a good time to start looking at
some of the things we can do to promote Ubuntu to people who aren't already
using it.  One that I've started pursuing already is talking to government
officials about using open-source software and open document formats in
government and public schools.  Other ideas are things like getting
Ubuntu-preinstalled machines sold in retail outlets, getting Ubuntu
workstations set up in public libraries, having local media run
open-source-related news stories, and introducing non-technical people to
Ubuntu who haven't heard of it before.

To see a larger list of some ways you could go with this, I'd recommend
reading https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoActivism, all of the pages linked from
it, and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/Campaigns/UbuntuInStores.
Also note that we have started pages on our wiki section for some of these
things, specifically https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MinnesotaTeam/LocalStores,
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MinnesotaTeam/Education, and
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MinnesotaTeam/Political.

Think about what interests you most personally, and use the release party to
find some like-minded folks to collaborate with so we can get some things
off the ground!

I haven't been getting responses of volunteers for the release party To-Do
list I posted - please consider helping out so we can put a good face
forward!

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Tony Yarusso
http://tonyyarusso.com/
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