[K12OSN] Las Vegas charter school moving to OSS (LTSP)

[Nate Bolton]

We are very excited to be moving this year from a school heavily 
dependent on MS to an OSS based school.  To do this, we are looking to LTSP.

As a charter school, we frown on text books as resources for learning 
and are learning to use technology instead.  Instead of text books for 
every student, we need computers for every student.  The best computers 
we can afford, unfortunately, are free computers.  We have been 
collecting old computer donations from various charitable sources and we 
have set up a small lab with one LTSP server and 6 thin clients.

Now we are ready to move to 120 thin clients and as many servers as we 
need.  In fact, we will be meeting at our school building, located at 
Tropicana and Sandhill, on Thursday, August 4th, at 6pm to plan for the 
implementation of LTSP and other needed services.  Anyone who would like 
to help us with advice or who may be interested in learning this for 
themselves are free to attend.

We appreciate the help found in these lists.  As we learn, we hope to be 
able to share our experience.  If there is advice any of you can offer 
to a young school enveloping itself in the world of OSS, we will be very 
grateful to hear it.

-- 
Nate Bolton
Director of Information Technology
Explore Knowledge Academy
www.ekacademy.org