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<DIV><SPAN class=372092016-23032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I made
a pitch to the Principal of the High School. She "bought" it without even
seeing it. I told her I could take her old non-functional Lab (Celeron
266's with 32Mb RAM running NT4 workstation - constant crashing) and instead of
spending $35,000 to replace the 24 computers, do it for $6000 - new server,
switch and 3com NICS. The division Director of Technology loved the demo,
the Computer Courses teacher likes it, ... but the principal never had the time
to come up and see it demo'ed. But she is prepared to fund
it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=372092016-23032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=372092016-23032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
think the money argument talked, as she really has no other alternative to that
aging lab. LTSP is an exact fit - Internet research, word processing,
printing .... in a high school. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=372092016-23032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=372092016-23032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>So I
wish you well in the marketing of your idea.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=372092016-23032004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Joe</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> k12osn-bounces@redhat.com
[mailto:k12osn-bounces@redhat.com]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Jim
Kronebusch<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 23, 2004 7:08 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
k12osn@redhat.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [K12OSN] School board
pitch<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=890415713-23032004><FONT face=Arial size=2>For those of you
who have been watching the list I made a pitch to our district 861 (more of a
teaser to get thier attention) and they are very interested (I expected to be
shot down immediately). Now I have to have some more meetings and demo
my test lab to them to show what types of equipment can be used and let them
get the feel for Linux. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=890415713-23032004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for all
your help, hopefully by next year this time every school in our district will
have an LTSP lab.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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