It's the "willing teacher" problem I had with my classroom idea. I put the question to a few teachers I know, and there's not much interest.
I like the idea of outreach and advocacy Matt suggests - if you think about my original idea, perhaps the market's wrong. Instead of selling Linux to the teacher/administration, sell it to the kids. Any kid interested in computers would choose the "free tank" over the "expensive station-wagon" (a la Neal Stephenson "In the Beginning") and a *willing* kid would actually learn. On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 22:25 -0500, Judah Milgram wrote: > Beware of OPC [1] syndrome > > [1] Other Peoples' Computers > > It's not just the install and setup. You'll have to hold their hands > forever, else sooner or later they'll run into a problem they can't > solve and if you're not available right then and there it'll be "we > tried Linux and got burned". > > Especially unpromising if you have to "convince" someone they want > Linux. > > I see a reply from Eoin ... maybe his experience says something > different. > > Judah > > > Matt Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've recently started to look into the idea of assisting private schools and > > non profits in migrating over to linux. Has anyone else already done this > > sort of thing? With the summer break a few months out this seems like it is > > a good time of year to come together and start planning, convincing, > > whatever is needed before any actual installs take place. > > > > Feedback, experience, whatever? > > > > -Matt > >
