Re: [school-discuss] Major Linux school deployments

[Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi, 

Thanks to everyone who replied on this thread.  I am wondering if we could please interest people in using a central wiki for collecting stories of this work.  The first wiki that comes to mind is Steve Hargadon's wiki:

http://wiki.k12opensource.com/

Looking at the history page of that wiki, I see that Steve does maintain it and kill spam there.  IMHO, it would be good if we had a centralized repository of knowledge that is not just an emailing list.  This list is good and the k120s list is good, but it would be nice if there were a place that could provide readers with *current* info on the status of projects.  

I would be willing to spend some time contacting sys admins and managers of labs and writing up their stories on a wiki somewhere to get it started.  I think that we would need to choose a site that was popular and used by readers.  Since Steve is so active in the FOSS educational area, it would make sense to me to have it on a site that he touches, since he has a lot of instutional knowledge of who is doing what. 

Has anyone heard from Paul Nelson or the Riverdale High School in Portland recently?  There is also a middle school in Portland that had an active LTSP project there.  I have not heard from them in a while, but I might have been out of the loop myself. 

Thx

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Andy Figueroa <figueroa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ask and you shall receive.

We are a small classical Christian school in Dayton, Ohio with 133 students
(87 full-time), 3rd grade through 12th grade.  We are 100% Linux except that
the business office runs QuickBooks under WindowsXP using VirtualBox.  Most
admin desktop workstations are running Linux Mint (5.0 Elyse)  We have three
computer labs.  A dedicated computer lab of seven diskless workstations with
an LTSP server (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) with the Edubuntu additions.  We also have
two mini-computer labs for classroom use, one of three and the other of four
workstations, with standalone Edubuntu installed on peer-to-peer subnetworks
for printing purposes.  Most of our printers are networked.  We run a main
wired and wireless network for teachers and staff, and another wireless
subnetwork for students with it's own dedicated network printer.

On a side note, the transition to Linux was without objection.  I simply
withdrew my support from their Windows machines until the users couldn't
stand it anymore.  After 9 months, every staff member asked to be switched
to Linux.  Many have now also switched to Linux on their home computers as well.

Andy Figueroa

Christian Einfeldt wrote (in part):

> I would also love to hear a brief paragraph from people about their
> school deployments.  Do you have LDAP or LTSP networks?  Do you have
> dedicated computer labs?  Do you just have a few standalone Linux
> computers in classrooms?

-- 
Christian Einfeldt,
Producer, The Digital Tipping Point