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Further to my earlier posting, re: siriusIT, it seems they do workshops, If we can get a good venue, perhaps they would be interesed in sponsoring an event, coming along and presenting their workshop to anyone who attends, it would may any event stand out. is it worth asking about them helping out. ? Are there any local (dclug area) companies offering similar services. http://www.siriusit.co.uk/ paul james kilty wrote: > On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 19:00 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > >>Well we've had numerous discussions on what would be the ideal solution >>for schools. >>Maybe even a start would be to go into the costs of Linux verses Windows >> >> > Costs would be one area. > Another would be the "Industry Standard" argument which is simple to > rebut. > Another would be the wonderful range of educational software. > The most difficult would be training plus availability of those in > this group (and outside of it - local) to act as advisors in the early > stages. But if the CCs were persuaded, it should be plain sailing - > once a couple of schools agreed to act as pilots (and they may already > be out there from the little I have read here) CCs would take a strong > lead. Innovation spread often comes by the grapevine and people > wondering how it works "over the fence". > >>XP & Microsoft Office. There's bound to be some schools that haven't >>got the money to spend on brand new PCs. Putting a Linux option to them >>- say a LTSP server and the PCs as LTSP clients could be a possible >>option. For the applications they need Windows for (i.e. applications >>that don't run under Wine and don't have any Linux equivalent) >> >> > I doubt there are many, but teachers would know what they wanted and > anyone advising would know what is available and what is not. > >> an option >>could be a small server running Windows 2003 and have the LTSP clients >>connect into the server using Remote Desktop (which is also supported as >>well as the X client/server). >> >> > Indeed. > >-- >james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk/ > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html