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would they be willing to give a talk on this at some point, why they are using it, why they chose it, experiences, perhaps at a future meet this would be a useful topic, especially if other schools can be present or represented. paul Jonathan Roberts wrote: > Just thought I'd let you all know that Truro College actively uses > Moodle in nearly all of its courses! And it's very useful in my > opinion - having just finished there last year. > > Sorry I don't have much to contribute: although have you all heard of > 'The Open CD'...it's a collection of what the authors consider to be > the best examples of OSS for Windows users and also includes a slim > downed version of the Ubuntu live cd for those feeling a bit more > adventureous; might be the perfect thing to give to schools in the > first place. Doesn't require massive changes to any of their systems, > and so I think they're more likely to go for it, but will encourage > further exploration of OSS. > > Also, it includes some introductions to OSS and also texts such as the > Cathedral and the Bazaar...I was really very impressed by it as an > initial introduction to the Open Source world. > > On 14/10/06, *Rob Beard* <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > james kilty wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 19:26 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > >> I think if we had someone > >> to speak for us in the schools then someone might listen. > >> > > I was a governor at Helston school for a couple of 4 year terms and > > was also a Cornwall County Councillor for a while. I am > interested in > > putting the case to CCC at least for upgrading to Linux in the > schools > > at least and use my history as a door key. What has the group > done so > > far? (I am new to the group as well as Linux). The Linux Format > > article a few issues ago is a good start. > Well we've had numerous discussions on what would be the ideal > solution > for schools. Things like LTSP and Moodle have been discussed (from > memory). Early this year (or late last year) I mentioned about > putting > a Live CD together for schools to give out to every pupil in the > Torbay > area although the cost of creating CDs would have been in the > region of > about £2000 for CDs, printing etc and that is before any burning > of CDs > was done. > > Maybe even a start would be to go into the costs of Linux verses > Windows > XP & Microsoft Office. There's bound to be some schools that haven't > got the money to spend on brand new PCs. Putting a Linux option > to them > - say a LTSP server and the PCs as LTSP clients could be a possible > option. For the applications they need Windows for (i.e. > applications > that don't run under Wine and don't have any Linux equivalent) an > option > could be a small server running Windows 2003 and have the LTSP clients > connect into the server using Remote Desktop (which is also > supported as > well as the X client/server). > > Rob > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > > > > > -- > Jon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html