[K12OSN] Banding Together to Create Market Forces

[Paul VanGundy]

Robert,

Exactly. Hence why I will start creating a website for such things. To
create Linux Educational Groups (a working title). 

-Paul

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 09:36 -0800, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> On 1/28/06, R. Scott Belford <scott at hosef.org> wrote:
> > There are really nice, well-meaning, but overwhelmed sales teams all
> > over the education marketplace.  The need more money for their
> > commissions.  Now.  When you are the first to call, explain the
> > potential size of your sale,  and emphasize your need for their product
> > to run on Linux, you get attention.  When you are the 10th, you are part
> > of trend.  When you are the 20th, you may have just cemented change.
> 
> One step towards making this happen is a comprehensive list of all
> schools in the world using Linux (LTSP or variants). We need to decide
> what school info should be included (eg number of students, Linux
> adoption date,  contact info, etc..). At the end of the list a summary
> of (# of schools, # students, # countries, etc..) This list needs to
> be updated every few months (max 6 months). Showing such a list of
> prospective customers will have weight. The
> http://www.frappr.com/k12ltsp is useful but it does not show all dots
> by default and has no formal info on each dot.
> --
> Robert Arkiletian
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> 
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