Hi Terry,
In most situations, content filtering is a network function (at the
internet gateway); not a client side function. DansGuardian is
opensource and does an awesome job. It could be run on the client side
but would create a lot of unnecessary overhead. The board member needs
to be educated. It is a nonissue; especially in Burlington. I know
several of the IT people. They do not do client side filtering.They do
Internet Gateway filtering. The only schools that might still be doing
client side filtering are very small and don't have adequate support to
setup network filtering.
Dave
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>>> Richard Jeroloman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5/20/2008 6:56 PM >>>
Paul,
At the NPA meeting in Burlington on May 8, Andy gave a really good
presentation on FOSS and Linux. Unfortunately I wasn't able to boot
Andy's Apple computer with my flash drive. So, I wasn't able to
demonstrate Puppy Linux as I had hoped.
We discussed the presentation at the NPA steering committee
meeting this afternoon and Vince, our school board member, said that he
thought that we still need a little more of a push to get FOSS on the
agenda for the school board and the city council. He is especially
concerned about security for the students. Is it possible, using
Ubuntu, to prevent the children from downloading pornography?
Would you be interested in doing a presentation at the NPA meeting
on June 12? If so, they will schedule a 20 minute time slot for you.
The steering committee thinks that a resolution should also be presented
for a vote, explicitly urging the school board and city council to
consider changing over from Microsoft to FOSS in order to save the
taxpayers money. We should have done this last month but we ran out of
time.
Attendance at the May 8 meeting was lighter than usual but there
was one member of the state legislature there, one city counselor and
our one school board member. Hopefully the attendance will be better at
the June 12 meeting since it is our last NPA meeting for the year. The
meetings are always taped by Channel 17 of Public Access Television in
Burlington. Andy's presentation is available for viewing on their
website.
Terry
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