[vox] K12LTSP, Linux Thin Client for Schools

[Verbus M. Counts]

Another good contact in South Africa is:

http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/index.php


Regards,
Verbus
916-765-1624 Cell





>From: "Edward Elliott" <ed_elliott at email.com>
>Reply-To: LUGOD's general discussion mailing list <vox at lists.lugod.org>
>To: "LUGOD's general discussion mailing list" <vox at lists.lugod.org>
>Subject: Re: [vox] K12LTSP, Linux Thin Client for Schools
>Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:14:35 -0800
>
>Steve, exciting and excellent work. Let me offer a couple of contacts.
>
>1) Karstyn McKoy, the Director of IT at Horizon Instructional Systems
>in the Sacramento area. I will add Karstyn to the BCC on this email and
>he will get your contact information. Karstyn has done some excellent
>work with Linux at Horizon.
>
>Dan Maria Cui, a friend of mine, is currently an IT manager at a school
>system in Bakersfield.I will copy Dan on the BCC and he will have your
>contact info. Dan, Steve is a great guy, please do me a favor and
>contact him to see if there is a fit between his project and your
>work and contacts in education. (Please read Steve's original
>post at the bottom of the email.)
>
>2) Next week I have an interview with folks at the International
>Writing Project in Berkeley. I will ask them if they have any contacts
>that could help with this.
>
>3) I saw an interesting article about refurbing old PCs with
>Linux for schools. In case you haven't seen it, here is the
>URL. http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3482499605.html
>
>4) SUSE has given grants to US High Schools in the past. Their
>US HQ is here in San Francisco, the contact number is
>888) 875-468 and the PR peron's email is
>  Martina Krahmer, Media Relations  martina.krahmer at suse.com
>PR on SUSE at Chico State
>http://www.suse.com/en/company/customer_references/pdf/chico.pdf
>
>5) You're doing something exciting and exceptional, and I think
>Tim O'Reilly would be interested in knowing about it and helping.
>Here is a link, I'd recommend calling the company up and trying to
>to his assistant. Ask for his recommendations and advice and I
>think he'd lucky to hear your story.
>http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/tim_bio.html
>Tom Adelstein just wrote an article on Open Source and California,
>he has a book published by O'Reilly and might have a contact number
>for you.  http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7750
>
>Pamela Samuelson at UC Berekeley is also a supporter of Open Source
>http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/%7Epam/
>She sits on the OSAF board.
>
>Speaking of OSAF, Mitch Kapor would be fascinated by this, and
>although he isn't working on an education project, I'll bet he
>has great contacts and ideas that could help.
>http://www.kei.com/homepages/mkapor/
>http://www.osafoundation.org/OSAF_Corporate_FAQ.htm#Q4
>
>6)The Taproot Foundation has also been recommended as
>a terrifican resource for professional volunteers.
>Here is the contact information I received from
>Michael Boykin at CPC Job Connections:
>
>Jeff Kruger
>Volunteer and Outreach Manager
>Taproot Foundation
>466 Geary Street, Suite 300
>San Francisco, CA  94102
>415-359-1131
>jeff at taprootfoundation.org
>
>I'll bet Jeff has great ties into the education
>area and would love to hear your story.
>
>7) Last but not least, your brother Andrew probably still has
>great contacts at Apple. If you had a scenario where iMacs could
>be the LTSP client machines, I bet Apple could put you in touch with
>Apple based schools and even help the project.
>
>By the way Steve, since you are already linked into Africa, let me
>add a site with some interesting news in the South Africa region.
>Tectonic with support from the Thawte folks:
>http://www.tectonic.co.za/index.php
>If you're going all the way to Kenya, you might be able
>to swing over to South Africa and hook up with these folks.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Hargadon" <steve at hargadon.com>
>Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:47:44 -0700
>To: <vox at lists.lugod.org>
>Subject: [vox] K12LTSP, Linux Thin Client for Schools
>
>Re: I just completed an installation of K12LTSP at a charter school in 
>Hawaii,
>Re: and am working with the Canadian government to install Linux thin 
>client
>Re: labs in 2,000 schools in Kenya, Africa.
>Re:
>Re: I'm hoping to find a school, or schools, in the greater Sacramento area 
>that
>Re: would really benefit from this technology.  I'd like a chance to help
>Re: install or demonstrate K12LTSP, and then showcase that school in 
>talking
>Re: with Secretary of Education's office in Sacramento.
>Re:
>Re: Any ideas?
>Re:
>Re: Steve Hargadon
>Re: Hargadon Computer, Inc.
>Re: 916-652-8600, ext. 711
>Re:
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