[K12OSN] School board pitch

[Joe Guenther]

MessageI 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.

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.

So I wish you well in the marketing of your idea.

Joe
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  Subject: [K12OSN] School board pitch


  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.

  Thanks for all your help, hopefully by next year this time every school in
our district will have an LTSP lab.


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