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 of your state team leader (or leaders) as for some Ubuntu
documents to be set to you you state team may even come out to help you
out as a whole (that is why the state/city teams where made)
If your state team is not active then let us know and we can try to get
you the Ubuntu documents side shows and all of that goodies...all of
that work has pretty much been done we just need to get it into your
hands!
Stephan Harz
DFW Team Leader
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 16:53 +0000, epic93d...@gmail.com 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 what an operating
> system was, then what open source software was. I explained how the
> open source community worked and why Open Source Software tends to be
> more secure, faster, and easier to use than Proprietary Software, and
> how these benefits were present in Ubuntu, in a way that the average
> computer user could understand. I also demonstrated some programs that
> come with Ubuntu and how they could do many of the tasks just as well
> or sometimes better than their Proprietary counterparts.
>
> The response was great. Several students were interested in learning
> more about Ubuntu and OSS after I gave the presentation. The school's
> principal, who also happened to be there during the presentation, was
> also interested in Ubuntu as well as the applications that I showed. I
> think that there is an opportunity of some kind here to get OSS in use
> at my school, because the students, teacher (of the class I gave the
> presentation in), and principal all seemed to be open towards the
> concept of free software.
>
> 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 computers, would
> save decent amounts of money, and would give access to some pretty
> amazing educational programs (The periodic table of elements program
> immediately comes to mind), they would be willing to try it.
>
> 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 convince the administration that
> we would save costs etc., I think they would consider trying it out,
> or even switching over entirely.
>
> Can you guys help me with this (especially the convincing the IT staff
> part) ?
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