[K12OSN] Victory

[James P. Kinney III]

WooHoo!! Congrats for the screaming success!!

Isn't it fun seeing the kids being able to really _USE_ the machines?!

When you see the parents be sure to have a stack of live CD's available
and some K12LTSP DVD's. Impress upon them the importance of having the
freedom to share both the knowledge AND the tools used.

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 10:24 -0400, Joe Korzeniewski wrote:
> After a ton of preparation I finally got my LTSP lab running. I have
> 27 Dell GX150's as terminals and a Dell Poweredge 1900 with 2x Quad
> Core Xeon processors and 8gb ram (overkill :-) running K12LTSP6. We
> unveiled it yesterday to the students and the response was
> overwhelmingly good. I sat in there and watched as the third graders
> pulled the word docs that they have been working on from their novell
> shared drive and worked on them using open office. I also got to watch
> a group of first graders go through and play games in GCompris. One of
> them came up to me on her way out the door and asked "are these
> computers going to stay in our lab?" with a real sad look on her face
> like we were going to take them away or something. At the end of each
> class, she asked the students if they like their new lab. All of them
> raised their hand each time. Before I left, the teacher was even
> asking me if it would be possible to do a linux installation party for
> parents (not in those words of cour
>  se). I just want to thank everybody on this list for helping me with
> all my dumb questions along the way. We couldn't have had this victory
> without your help!
> 
> Joe Korzeniewski
> Network Admin
> Battle Creek Public Schools
> 
> 
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James P. Kinney III          
CEO & Director of Engineering 
Local Net Solutions,LLC        
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