Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu for School

2010-10-14 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 13/10/10 17:53, epic93d...@gmail.com wrote: > > Can you guys help me with this (especially the convincing the IT staff > part) ? Hi Epic93dude, Well done for promoting OSS, you sound like you will go far! One area we are trying to concentrate on here in the UK is that we need to change "what

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu for School

2010-10-13 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 21:47 -0700, Paul Bartell wrote: > Making ubuntu systems truly manageable centrally takes some work. > Windows server allows quite a bit of easy central configuration that > takes a lot more work to implement in a linux OS. Isn't part of this problem the fact that systems ad

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu for School

2010-10-13 Thread Paul Bartell
A big thing that the school techs will want to know about is how to manage ubuntu systems.. In short, Most tech departments are understaffed and don't really have the resources to implement something that might save time and money in the long run because it is such an up front investment of time. A

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu for School

2010-10-13 Thread Akshat Jain
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Akshat Jain wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:23 PM, wrote: > >> Hi Ubuntu-Marketing. I ama a student at a small high school in Southwest >> Missouri. Recently we had an assignment in a class where we had to give a >> presentation on a group/organization/mov

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu for School

2010-10-13 Thread Akshat Jain
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:23 PM, wrote: > Hi Ubuntu-Marketing. I ama a student at a small high school in Southwest > Missouri. Recently we had an assignment in a class where we had to give a > presentation on a group/organization/movement. I chose to give my > presentation on Ubuntu. I explained

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu for School

2010-10-13 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu for School

2010-10-13 Thread Jo-Erlend Schinstad
On 13 October 2010 18:53, wrote: > What I want to do is get my school to at least try Ubuntu out in one of the > computer labs or something like that. I think if I could demonstrate that it > is a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows + Office, which is what we > currently use on all our comput

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu for School

2010-10-13 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:53 PM, wrote: > That being said, I need to be able to convince the IT staff that it would be > easy to learn, easier to manage than Windows Server Edition (Which is what > we use), and compatible with the current infrastructure that we have. If I > can do that, plus conv

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu for School

2010-10-13 Thread Tim McNamara
On 14 October 2010 05:53, wrote: > What I want to do is get my school to at least try Ubuntu out in one of the > computer labs or something like that. I think if I could demonstrate that it > is a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows + Office, which is what we > currently use on all our comput

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu for School

2010-10-13 Thread Linden
May I ask how old are you and in what grade? You have done very well for doing what you have done. Sadly I am not sure how much we can do as we are all over the world/country and not one of us live close to you. Well one of may or may not. But what could be done would be the following Get a hold

[ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu for School

2010-10-13 Thread Epic93dude
Hi Ubuntu-Marketing. I ama a student at a small high school in Southwest Missouri. Recently we had an assignment in a class where we had to give a presentation on a group/organization/movement. I chose to give my presentation on Ubuntu. I explained what an operating system was, then what op