<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hey Tom, you need any network engineers up your way? :-) This is both great news and a great testament, and any of us who are trying to sell our senior management on LTSP in the K-12 environment should consider using this information in our pitches. --TP <div class="moz-signature">_______________________________ Do you <a href="http://www.gnu.org">GNU</a>? <a href="http://www.cmosnetworks.com">Microsoft Free since 2003</a>--the ultimate antivirus protection! </div> Tom Wolfe wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20071116195356.F4689@dyyme.pair.com" type="cite">CC: Gord Breen Morley, MCS Principal; Yvonne DePeel SEA Superintendant; Ron McWhinnie, Computers for Schools; K12LTSP user list; Geoff Wasdell, Grade 5 teacher. The rollout of the "new" computers we received yesterday is going very well, in fact it's exceeding my expectations. Teachers & students are very excited and pleased. Within 24 hours we have over 40 of these "new" units up & fully functional. Added to our existing 50 workstations we have a total of 90 workstations in 11 classrooms. I estimate by the end of next week that all labs (26 total) will be running. Our total costs for 150 workstations (including last year's order) and 2 servers is approx $7000 plus and a bit of effort on the part of the teachers & their kids to put the computers in the classrooms & get them lit up. And of course the time it's taken me to set up the servers and learn about the system. Compare this with the rollout in 2003 of our 85 Dells, which cost $100,000 in hardware, $30,000 in consultant's fees for the setup, to say nothing of the Windows, Office & other software licensing, not to mention that it took about 3 months to complete. This is very exciting! Thanks: - to Computers for Schools for giving us hardware that is ready to go with PXE boot default!! - to the folks involved with the Linux Terminal Server Project, especially K12LTSP, Edubuntu, and the K12LTSP user list - to a visionary school admin who is willing to support this in the first place - to Geoff Wasdell and his Grade 5 class, who acted as enthusiastic guinea pigs during out testing, and who have helped classes with younger kids get their labs set up! Regards, Tom Wolfe --- Tom Wolfe, IT Specialist <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:twolfe@sawback.com">twolfe@sawback.com</a> Stoney Educational Authority tel: (403) 881-2650 Box 238, Morley AB, T0L 1N0 fax: (403) 881-2793 Morley Community School | Chief Jacob Bearspaw School | Ta-otha School _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.k12os.org"><http://www.k12os.org></a> </blockquote> </body> </html>