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Re: [school-discuss] Needing estimates



On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:43:47PM -0700, Jennifer Dozar wrote:
> I am taking a project management class right now, and for my current
> project i decided to map out a transition project for a school district.
> Migrating them from MS to Linux. I was curious of how much a school or
> district would spend on renewing licensing for their computers a year.
> How much would that run?  I am pseudo running this through the summer
> while the kids are on summer break, so i am make believeing this is a
> wonderfully feasible task :)   how many people do you think it would
> take to do at least one school to backup certain files and install say
> Debian on the computers?  What would be a reasonable fee for
> repairs/problems to offer to a school/district for such a migration? 
>
I can't answer your questions, but I would be grateful to see your
results.  I teach in a small urban district in Massachusetts, and I
would love to try to adapt your work to our circumstances.  I expect our
administration would welcome a well analyzed alternative.

Yours,

Streph