[K12OSN] Just about ready to make a purchase

[Huck]

90 machines all concurrently logged in?? My personal experience screams 
slow...but I hope that's not the case for you...(network bottlenecks, 
not server)

45 min training sessions weekly...

You might want to look into using Captivate/Camtasia or some such tool 
to record mini-training videos for specific tasks...and export them as 
flash and put them on an Intranet somewhere for them to have access to 
at their leisure...just a suggestion =)

Kudos on saving $90k of either tax dollars or privately donated funds!

--Huck

Jim Kronebusch wrote:

> We will also implement weekly 45 minute training sessions for teachers/staff.  First
> these sessions will be about familiarizing them with XUbuntu,OpenOffice, and Firefox in
> general.  Then we will move towards application suggestions for specific tasks and then
> walk them through how to accomplish the tasks.

> Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.  This switch is making me nervous.  I
> really don't want to spend $40,000 and have everything be slow, I want the users to
> think these are stand alone 3Ghz machines.  But compared to the $135,000 they were going
> to spend on iMacs and MS Office, I think it is worth the risk. And I can't wait to be
> able to increase our software offerings by ten fold or more.  If all goes well this will
> be a showcase of how well FOSS can benefit a school and will be a model for our area. 
> If this doesn't go well...it better go well.
> 
> Exciting.....Scary.....Worth it :-)
> 
> Jim Kronebusch
> Cotter Tech Department
> 453-5188
> 
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