Ok, and do you know of a URL for LUGs?
On Thursday 12 July 2001 08:51, Mark Johnson wrote:
> I heard recently (from my wife, can't confirm the specifics)
> that MS is suing a very poor public school in Philadelphia
> for making copies of Windows for its students to run in its
> classrooms. It seems that for such a school (and really any
> school) that linux would be just a perfect fit.
>
> Does anyone know of any elementary and secondary schools
> using linux? I know many, many colleges are, but I'm more
> curious to know about other schools.
>
> I could imagine all sorts of really cool things that students
> and teachers could do with linux. I would think that ISPs
> could donate or discount an internet connection so that the
> students and teachers could learn about setting up a LAN
> connected to the internet; bring up some private news and IRC
> servers for discussing homework; develop virtual web sites to
> show case student work, syllabuses(sp?), and message boards,
> etc... They could use the OpenOffice, it would probably be
> possible for some of them to run linux at home. If people
> would recycle and donate there old systems to the schools
> they could have contents for students to win those computers
> for home. We have a Goodwill Computer works in here in my
> town with some descent systems available that could easily
> run linux and even X. (I've heard some parts of the east
> coast have been having lead problems will old moniters begin
> tossed out - I shudder to think people are dumping thier
> computers in dumpsters!!!)
>
> It would be really exciting i think -- but maybe I'm too much
> of a geek. You'd really have to have buy in from the
> teachers and staff... most likely, except for a few of them,
> will probably be too terrified of computers in general to
> even contemplate using linux...I would think local LUGs could
> train teachers and staff so they could become much more
> comfortable with the whole thing.
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jeferson Lopes Zacco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 6:51 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Use of Linux
> > >
> > > Speaking seriously now, If I ever get to be a good C/C++
> > > programmer and ever manage to understand QT libraries and
> > > whatever it takes to make programs for KDE/Gnome/X than
> > > I really plan on releasing a ChildDesktop for Linux.
> >
> > What a FANASTIC idea!!!!
