Cristobal,
Each school system or LEA (local education agency) generally has a
director level type IT person working at the school system's central office.
This is generally within the superintendent's office for the LEA, for
Greensboro (guilford county), it's 370-8390.
http://www.gcsnc.com/information/departments.html
Here's a link to technology services at GCS:
http://its.gcsnc.com/ (you should explore this for the technology plan)
You basically have to sell it to the guy that runs IT for the school
system, it won't happen unless he _successfully_ pitches
it to the superintendent or the school system has a more liberal school
by school policy (more common in smaller systems I think).
You might call up and have a conversation with the IT director about how
they implement labs and such in the school systems before you go
anywhere else or
spend more energy on a plan. That said, developing and practicing
planning skills is very useful!
As far as who could do this in your area, a good place to start is with
the local chamber of commerce for your city.
http://www.greensboro.org/
Go to business directory and do a search on "computers", beyond that
you'd have to contact each service vendor and find out
if they "do linux".
Good luck!
Doug Taggart
Troops to Teachers
Cristobal Palmer wrote:
What's DPE? Did you mean DPI?
Let me see if I understand you: she should draw up a detailed plan
that is likely to get approval and, if that gets approved, try to
substitute Open Source solutions for the proprietary ones in the plan?
Perhaps you meant that the idea of getting Open Source into the school
is not one that is likely to happen at all because it must be cleared
by the board?
I failed to mention in my original email one of the driving factors
behind this: the school is a dual-immersion Spanish-English school.
Among other things, this means investing in more software. If Linux
can help _any_ school, I think this is the one.
Anybody else have stories to share, input to offer?
-CMP
On 3/1/06, Ryan Leathers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tell her to get in touch with DPE and set up an appointment to discuss
her school's tech plan. Before anything else happens, the tech plan
needs to be in line. It almost certainly does not include any language
favorable to the use of Linux in particular or open source in general.
On the other hand, it very likely includes specific MS product titles in
the plan. The tech plan has to be in line and approved before any work
like this can get off the ground.
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 14:33 -0500, Cristobal Palmer wrote:
A recent thread and a slashdot entry got me to wondering: who around
here would/could do initial setup and/or ongoing support for switching
a school to Linux. My mom is the principal of an elementary school in
Greensboro. Who should she call up if she wants to get her school
switched? Keep in mind that she'd have to sell the idea to her boss,
so me (her son, a student) doing it wouldn't fly.
I know there are some great web resources and distros out there (eg.
edubuntu, http://www.ltsp.org/ ), but who are the people who could
make it happen locally?
Any redhatters wanna pipe up on what you guys offer?
http://www.redhat.com/en_us/USA/home/solutions/education/ didn't tell
me too much.
Anybody have an Edubuntu success story?
Some time back I watched TechCoaches.org get up and moving with a
LiveCD project for home use:
http://www2.chccs.k12.nc.us/education/components/whatsnew/default.php?sectiondetailid=8599&id=291&viewType=detail
but haven't heard anything recently. Anybody?
TIA,
CMP
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