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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sutton wrote: > How many people here actually work in a School, I am asking as someone Raises hand. > who is in schools on a regular basis, school budgets for IT in > primaries are low, if they are lucky to have a technician, they end up > with lots of problems to solve, in some cases the server is not in a > super fitted air conditions room, it could be in a classroom or room off Air conditioning appears to be rather a politically incorrect idea right now. Apparently having hardware (and people) bake at 20 odd degrees is the way things are ment to be now :) > a classroom (e.g it suite) > > Techies struggle to keep a network going, computers go dowm, > projectors stop working, etc, all this needs to be fixed and fixed In many schools preventative maintanance and planing anything is not seen as a priority. > quickly for lessons, network infrastructure is in some cases not > designed and has been added to over the years resulting in a mess, with Even when it has been "designed" that is no guarentee than whoever designed it knows what they are doing. > NO time to fix the hardware side of it all, > > There are schools in torbay that don't even have websites, perhaps > before we start moving schools over to OSS we could get together and > help them, approach as an organisation rather than me trying as an > indivudual and getting ignored. The less they have to start with the less they are likely to be tied in to anything at all. -- 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