Re: [school-discuss] Major Linux school deployments

[Andy Figueroa <figueroa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gee, I think a link would have been helpful -- or a city, state/province,
country ... like this:
http://www.sd73.bc.ca/district-operations.php/page/linux-in-education/ or this
http://www.techforce.com.br/news/linux_blog/british_columbian_school_district_73_chose_debian
or this
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=47852
etc.

:-)
Andy Figueroa



Dean Montgomery wrote:
> October 2009  - All Schools in School District 73 are running Diskless Linux clients for students, teachers, secretaries, & principals.  A total of 3200 Diskless workstations.  The count does not include Linux on stand-alone Laptops/Desktops.
> Our biggest school is running 236 diskless clients off of one server.
> 
> We are happy to answer any questions.
> 
> ----- "Christian Einfeldt" <einfeldt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am aware generally of proposed and existing Linux deployments in
>> schools in Portland (Oregon), Indiana, Kerala (India), Extremadura
>> (Spain), Russia, and Brazil, but I am wondering if anyone can
>> summarize in just a paragraph or so what is going on with those
>> deployments.
>>
>> Also, has anyone heard what is going on at the Riverdale High School
>> in Portland, Oregon? Is Paul Nelson still there?
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> I am a volunteer who is supporting two public schools in San Francisco
>> with Linux. At one school, we have a 31-seat LDAP Ubuntu lab. That
>> school also has about 20 standalone machines in classrooms. Those
>> machines are used for basic Internet browsing; for email; and for
>> using TuxType, KTouch, and TuxMath.
>>
>> At another school, there are about 31 standalone machines which perfom
>> similar functions to the machines located in the first school. Our use
>> of Linux is rather primitive. We are looking to enhance that usage to
>> get more educational benefit from these machines.
>>
>> --
>> Christian Einfeldt,
>> Producer, The Digital Tipping Point
>