[K12OSN] small world! help needed for an LTSP lab in San Francisco

[Peter Scheie]

Christian-
Technology Rescue (www.technologyrescue.com) provides support-for-fee 
for K12LTSP installations.  Steve Hargadon, a regular on this list, is 
the owner.  They're located in Granite Bay.

See ya on the Open Document Fellowship list. ;-)

Petre

Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> Wow, it really is a small world after all, isn't it.
> 
> In 2004, I came up to Oregon to film Paul Nelson and the Riverdale High 
> School for the Digital Tipping Point film.  As part of that process, I 
> learned about the power of LTSP labs.  I came back to San Francisco and 
> helped build an LTSP lab in a public middle school.  Now, here I am back 
> at Paul Nelson's door step asking for some tech support, except that I 
> didn't even plan it that way; a friend of mine who is helping me with 
> this work found this email list and suggested that I contact you for 
> help.  As I was signing up, I noticed Paul Nelson's email address as the 
> owner of the list and chuckled. 
> 
> So, on to my problem.  We have an LTSP lab with 33 thin clients.  We are 
> looking for paid support.  We have some money to spend as a result of 
> the California anti-trust suit against Microsoft.  We would like to 
> spend it on LTSP support for the lab.  I am looking for tips.  If there 
> are any providers on this list, especially providers in San Francisco, I 
> would love to hear from you.
> 
> Coincidentally, Paul and Riverdale High School will be pretty prominent 
> in our film.  Our film is about the cultural implications of the global 
> growth of Free Open Source Software (FOSS).  This is not a film about 
> computers.  It's a film about culture.  About how people talk to each 
> other. 
> 
> We have filmed many dignitaries such as Christian Ude (the Mayor of 
> Munich), Hermann-Josef Pelgrim (the Mayor of Schwaebisch Hall), Gilberto 
> Gil (the Culture Minister of Brazil), and Luiz Millan Vazquez de Miguel, 
> (the Extremaduran Minister of Science, Education).  The theme of our 
> film is that Free Open Source Software (FOSS) will help foster an 
> explosion of literacy and creativity globally. Our film is the first 
> feature length documentary to be built on-line out of fully forkable 
> footage released under a Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike license 
> on the Internet Archive. 
> 
> You can see our raw video here:
> 
> http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=digitaltippingpoint
> 
> Our keyword search index page is located below.  It is the place to go 
> to find specific persons or themes for our footage. 
> 
> http:// tinyurl .com/yluwoc <http://tinyurl.com/yluwoc>
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance for any help you can offer for our LTSP problem!
> 
> -- 
> Christian Einfeldt,
> Producer, The Digital Tipping Point 
> <http://archive.org/details/digitaltippingpoint>
> 
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