Andrew and Group, There is a time and place for this kind of action. Unfortunately, I don't believe that this is the time or place for CLUG to get involved. I agree with everyone who has suggested getting your parents involved. Ultimately it's their taxes that pay for your schooling and their voices that will be heard not ours.
Even if your parents are technologically inept, you should still make the case to them first. Honestly, this is what any good parent can be counted on, championing your cause for you. It is a goal of mine to make a case to the CBE/Calgary Separate School Board or any school board in the region to use Linux. This is not the way I would choose. Niels has some excellent suggestions that I will expand on. If you were running your own web server you could at least pull the files from home to school. It's getting them back home that is the trick. You are stuck with FTP, SSH, SSH through a web browser written in Java, or some kind of web app with PHP with file transfers set to some ungodly limit if you are transferring really large files. These are a few suggestions for you. I truly sympathize with your plight. I am aware how much you feel that your hands are tied. There is no guarantee that even if you got the right to use any of the above apps or solutions that it would still work, what if those ports were blocked within/without the school network. There are levels and levels here. With all the movies and horror stories of kids hacking into school computers how can you really blame them for being paranoid. We all know that a healthy level of paranoia is critical to survival in this wired world. Good on the school boards if they are this protective. I would rather that then some creep getting vital statistics on my kid. Or using the school resources to send out the next Trojan. And yes, a few bad apples spoil it for everyone. I want to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your endeavors so far. It appears that you have gone about this more or less the right way... up to inviting us to send mail to your VP or Principal. Officially I don't think we can help you more than that. Good luck! Jarrod Major President CLUG -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Graupe Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:46 AM To: Calgary Linux Users Group Subject: [clug-talk] Linux at School Now is the time for e-mail. Send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks -- Registered Linux User #346768 http://counter.li.org _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
