Scott,
Well, the Indiana ACCESS program provides funding for the computers and the
desks. The only requirement, I believe, is that they use Linux. MOST of the
schools are running the Novell products, because Novell took an active interest
early on in the program. In fact, we sort of paid for NLD 9 by default in the
first four classrooms, and our computers came with a rather badly put together
NLD9 image that had some issues (both GNOME and KDE, OpenOffice1.9 and 2.0 AND
StarOffice 7, would drop randomly to the command-line, etc.).
I had already looked into and started developing a familiarity with Edubuntu
and figured we'd have an easier time creating a new image from the ground up
than trying to strip out all the unwanted bits from the existing image and
debugging all the random little problems. We checked with the State to make
sure it was ok with them, and converted everything over to Edubuntu. We've
ended up moving over to plain vanilla Ubuntu this year, since the difference in
our situation is mostly cosmetic, but may move back again in the future, who
knows?
To answer your question, the program is distribution agnostic and the schools
can choose as they wish, it's just that most people don't MAKE a choice and the
Novell product is the default. There is at least one other school in the state
using Ubuntu, and at least one school using Red Hat.
Take care!
Sim?n
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Scott Ledyard
Sent: Thu 3/1/2007 12:53 PM
To: Simon Ruiz
Subject: Re: Bloomington North's Linux Initiative in the News
Simón
Thanks for sharing this interesting article - though I'm somewhat biased being
a native Hoosier and having gone to college in Bloomington :-)
I do have a question though: I thought the IN ACCESS program was using SLED.
Does the state provide funding for any use of Linux?
Scott
Cincinnati, OH
On 2/27/07, Simon Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bloomington North's Indiana ACCESS program has been highlighted in the
news at linux.com <http://linux.com/> in a story about Edubuntu.
Also of interest--at least to me--Efrain Valles, the Venezuelan
educator who's story is highlighted in the section "A Third World solution", is
a friend of mine, and I've work with him to provide support for the schools
he's introducing to Edubuntu.
We're world famous, yay!
Simón
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From: Melissa Draper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 2/27/2007 5:12 PM
To: Richard Weideman; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Efrain Valles; Simon Ruiz
Subject: Article is now available
The article was published about an hour ago at
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/20/197251
*yay*
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