[K12OSN] Why Linux?

[Rob Owens]

If the school board wants to be directly involved in the IT decisions, make them sorry.  Print out every email response you have gotten on this list.  Print out every testimonial you can find on the internet.  Print out every "why linux is better" article you can find.  Top it off with a concise and well-written recommendation from yourself.  Drop this 5 pound pile of paper on their table and say "this is why we should use linux".  Of course they won't read it all.  

If they do read it all, they will quite likely be convinced that linux is the way to go.  If they don't read it, they would be taking a big risk by saying no to linux--they have a pile of documentation in front of them stating why linux is better, so they'd better be ready to produce an equally-sized pile of documentation countering your claims if they want to deny your request and still appear like they know what they are doing.  Imagine if the taxpayers found out...

-Rob


 --- On Fri 11/05, Martin Woolley < sysadmin at handsworth.bham.sch.uk > wrote:
From: Martin Woolley [mailto: sysadmin at handsworth.bham.sch.uk]
To: k12osn at redhat.com, tuxnician at execulink.com
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 08:32:53 +0000
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Why Linux?

On Thursday 04 Nov 2004 5:35 pm, Jason wrote:<br>> Hi Everyone.<br>><br><br>> I was wondering if anyone has some information, suggestions,<br>> presentations etc of the benefits of Linux/LTSP in the educational area.<br>>   I have some websites bookmarked but I'm looking for more personal<br>> experience from a technician, teacher etc point of view.<br><br>You can find a discussion of our experiences here<br>http://www.openhgs.org/moin.cgi/LinuxProject<br>and how we see things going here<br>http://www.openhgs.org/moin.cgi/DepartmentalPlans<br>and here is some stuff on why the original decision to move to Linux was <br>taken; this was before I came on the scene (I'm the techie)<br>http://www.openhgs.org/linuxmig.htm<br>-- <br>Regards<br>Martin Woolley<br>ICT Support<br>Handsworth Grammar School<br>Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna<br><br><br><br>*************************************************************<br>This email and any files transmitted with it are confid!
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