If you have been to an east side meeting at sequoia you know 1 school that uses linux. I think charter schools are a perfect target. I just signed my kids up at a charter school that doent have a computer lab they have laptops that come to the classrooms I thought that was neat On 8/7/09, Michael Butash wrote: > I dunno about any of you, but I know of no schools using sugar, let > alone linux here locally. I've worked with a few school districts > around town for infrastructure, and they're all very linux-ama-whuzzit? > As far as I can tell they have issues grasping/maintaining networked > windoze environments, and I can't imagine them wanting to now inject a > whole new os even they themselves haven't a clue how to maintain. > Combine this with being already overworked and underpaid, it'll die on > the butchering floor for anyone to support it within the organization. > > Now look at this from a kids perspective, if they can't run games or > even apps they're *familiar* with, I think most would immediately > dismiss it. Combine this with probably scaring the hell out of their > windoze-loving parents booting their system even temporarily into linux, > they'd ban such a thing thinking it's a virus or something equally > asinine. I think only the most geek-inclined would bother, others would > just format it to hide their pr0n on. Microsoft and scammers (one and > same?) have done a good job of getting people to think that nothing good > can possibly be free... > > As good as the intentions, without some serious persistence and > education, it'd be moot to bother with IMHO. Cisco has done a good job > of trying to push themselves into high school education curriculum, as > has Microsoft, but I don't see the same happening with any linux. There > is no singular beast of a self-serving company producing and > incentivizing it with the same capacity for pulling money off trees for > pet projects as they do. Well, at least until google steps forward with > ChromeOS perhaps... > > -mb > > > On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 11:51 -0700, Stephen wrote: >> even further out on a limb maybe contact any of the big companies >> wanting to tout their opensource support? dell hp ibm ect... >> >> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Stephen wrote: >> > And honestly they are one of the most persistant companies supporting >> > opensource locally. kinda of a fit.. >> > >> > maybe contact system76? >> > >> > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:12 AM, wayne wrote: >> >> Eric Shubert wrote: >> >>> I stumbled across this just now: >> >>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick >> >>> "The Sugar on a Stick project gives children access to /their/ Sugar >> >>> on >> >>> any computer in their environment with just a USB memory stick. Taking >> >>> advantage of the Fedora LiveUSB, it's possible to store everything you >> >>> need to run Sugar on a single USB memory stick (minimum size 1GB)." >> >>> I must have missed/ignored this being mentioned here before. >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James Finstrom Rhino Equipment Corp. http://rhinoequipment.com ~ http://postug.com Phone: 1-877-RHINO-T1 ~ FAX: +1 (480) 961-1826 Twitter: http://twitter.com/rhinoequipment IP: guest@asterisk.rhinoequipment.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss