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Re: [seul-edu] Good news and a request
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 12:35 PM, Gary Dunn wrote:
Don't underestimate the power of coordinating with local open-source
groups.
And don't underestimate the difficulties OSS advocates can encounter
when dealing with school districts and individual sites. The two
cannot be separated. Schools have to spend their tech dollars in ways
where they can pay for a certain level of service. Assuming volunteers
will be available is really out of the box for district tech
coordinators.
Many members enjoy doing volunteer work at schools.
Many members enjoy being paid for their services as well and have a
much shorter response time when there is a buck at the end of the stick.
Also, don't
underestimate the students' ability to install and administer these
systems. I want to see high school students running the school LAN, and
adopting neighboring elementary and middle schools on a for-credit
outreach program.
However, students with admin logins ain't gonna happen. Confidential
files need to be kept that way. Server tasks are often segregated but
not always. To use students as sys admins a lot of thinking needs to
be done to only give them access to specific, non-confidential file
servers, non-mission critical application servers, content filters and
networks that have firewalls between the rest of the network and the
web.
I apologize for stating the obvious.
Jim Aird
HomeTech Charter School
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