Re: hmmmm....

["Bob T. Kat" <bobkat79@charter.net>]

sounds like fun, i don't have great deals of time but "i love it when a plan
comes together" and would be happy to help in any way i can

i could probably even do the sales thing (ahhhh  flashbacks of being a
consultant), i can convince them it will work if we have enough help to make
it work

Bob The Evil Kat

----- Original Message -----
From: Tighe Schlottog <emry@icephyre.net>
To: <silug-discuss@silug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 2:38 PM
Subject: hmmmm....


> Now, I was sitting here thinking again, I have been doing that alot lately
> and the pain seems to be only temporary from doing that.  ;)  But anyways,
> I was thinking that with the recent attempted fleecing of the schools up
> in Washington by M$ and with the "audits" run by the BSA, now might be a
> good time to start talking to the local schools about free software and
> the benefits that you can get from it.  Schools where they are paying a
> pretty penny to be able to use products such as Word or Excel could easily
> be replaced with StarOffice or OpenOffice with some ease.  With the recent
> advances in the stability of the windowing systems within linux and the
> unixes, it would be rather simple to setup something that they would be
> able use in a quick amount of time.  Also, the LTSP project looks to be
> something that they might want to do.  The only problem would be those
> schools that use specific programs that require a windows enviroment to
> run, such as the Mavis learning series or the Rabbit typing series for
> example.  Now, here is the call to arms.  Who amoungst us would be willing
> to help out in such an endevor?  I would be more than willing to put my
> time into the ring to make such a thing happen.  In doing this we could
> also bring the teachers and the students further into the world of
> technology by teaching them how to admin these boxes.  This would be an
> added benefit and quite possibly a leg up for students who will be moving
> on into CS or another computer related field.  Or it could just breed the
> next generation of sysadmins.  In any event, proprientary and costly
> software in schools could be replaced with a GNU/Free solution fairly easy
> in my mind.  The only part that will take some time will be the retraining
> of the teachers and students to work with the system.  But, with students
> like Nate at the schools it should be fairly easy to populate the campus
> with those who are imbued with the Clue(tm).  Sorry to make this so long,
> but I am looking for a project to do and I was wondering if anyone else
> would be interseted in this?  Bleh, back to the nap.
>
> Tighe
>
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