Re: [school-discuss] Looking for Anyone Doing Training on Open Source Software in Education

[Chris Gregan <cgregan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Damir,
Perhaps you should consider turning those old Win95 machines into thin 
clients. This would show your administrators that old hardware can be 
revived as a flexible, secure, feature rich desktop again using FOSS and 
GNU/Linux. The setup is very easy these days, and would give you an 
excellent way of showing the value of FOSS without affecting any of the 
existing installed programs.
Here's a brief primer on thin client technology from my site:
http://www.aptenix.com/thinclienttext.html
Cheers,

Chris Gregan
cgregan@xxxxxxxxxxx
Open Source Migration Specialist/Founder
Aptenix LLC-Desktop Solutions
New Market, MD
(240)422-9224

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Damir wrote:
> Vedran Vucic pravi:
> > If you look for people  who work on deployment on free software in 
> > education, I am one of those. :-)
> >
> > If you need to know more about projects I am involved in , please let 
> > me know.
>
> I'm IT teacher in a small elementary school in Lendava, Slovenia, and 
> interested in promoting OSS in education. Ministry of Education here 
> (www.mss.gov.si) started some project a few years ago and we got 
> Slovenian Linux distro (Pingo - www.pingo.org ) and new PCs for all came 
> with dual boot.
> But then, project died (ministry made a deal with MS and we all have 
> licenses for XP an Office now). Ministry stopped (actively) promoting 
> OSS there are no new educational applications being developed.
>
> I'm running school server on Linux, but all classroom PCs (~30) are XP 
> (on new hardware) or W95 (very old hardware, P166MHz). Beside this, I'm 
> still very interested in using more OSS applications in my school and 
> very happy to hear all advices I can get.
>
> Thanks,
> Damir