On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > May I ask where this school is located? Canonical also has partners > > who can provide support: > > > > http://webapps.ubuntu.com/partners/solution/#as > > Prakruti Badi, Chennekottapalli, Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh. > It is run by an NGO, Timbaktu Collective (http://timbaktu.org). > > Its a rural school and they don't have enough funds to buy > professional services. > > They have 5-6 computers and they mainly use computers to: > > * prepare course material (work sheets, exams papers etc) > open office, > * type various documents (in English and Telugu) > open office > * play songs and movies for children > vlc, totem, xine, xmms, mplayer (take your pick) > * let children get familiar with computers > > * manage content for http://kottapalli.in (an e-magazine for children > in Telugu run by that school) > there is enough support for telegu and the fonts used are already unicode , infact one advantage of Ubuntu is that you could have multiple language interface options - people can boot into Ubuntu english, telegu and / or any other language of choice - again unlike Windows where you would need seperate installs for separate langauges > > Though their scale is small, they represent typical rural scenario > (with no people with experience in Linux and no/slow internet > connection). we too started off without an internet connection and survived on magazine distro's so its not a real problem - esp if you can get hold of the repos dvd's. ram
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