[K12OSN] Name changes & NECC Seattle

Paul Nelson (pnelson@riverdale.k12.or.us)
26 Apr 2003 23:21:19 -0700 

After a week of NCCE (big tech in schools conference) here in Portland
(not to be confused with NECC in Seattle this June...) it's clear lots
of folks have heard of K12LTSP. They associate it with Linux in schools
and they have heard good things about it. 

I'm thinking that K12LTSP has to stay a part of our name even if we
still can't say it fast. ;-)

We setup a bank of 12 thin-clients with nice 15" LCD displays running
off of a dual Xeon4 server. This was one nice system and folks loved it.
Our machines were whisper quiet, totally fast and we went all week with
100% uptime, no crashes. Teachers and tech folk were so surprised to
learn that they were using thin-clients and Linux to boot. 

 Eric Harrison was asked to install a Linux server to run the NCCE
network this year. Two years ago we replied to a panicked plea by
bringing in my home Linux box at the last minute to setup NAT and
private IP's for all the vendors. This year they asked ahead of time and
of course, everyone there experienced total reliability. Linux works.

We'll have the same show up at NECC only with more clients. These shows
are great PR events. I must have given away 150+ CD sets of K12LTSP. We
also gave away 100+ copies of OpenOffice & Gimp for Windows and Mac OS
X. The *.iso for that CD-rom is on the http://k12os.org site. 

I should put in a plug for LinuxFund.org who staked us to our conference
fund that provides CD's and help for shows like this.
http://linuxfund.org

We also had help from folks through the affero.org group:
http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=pnelson

We're looking forward to NECC this summer. We'll have a big Open Source
lab there and a demo table where folks can build their own mini-ltsp
labs. The fastest install by the end of the week gets to take home a
server. We think that will be a big draw. Our kids will be wearing red
hats and penguin lab coats bulging with CD's to give away. Last year I
had keep reminding them to not hang out in front of the Microsoft booth.
 ;-)

Remember the motto: It works. It's free. Duh...

;-) Paul

On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 22:48, David Trask wrote:
> k12osn@redhat.com writes:
> >www.openschoolsoftware.org
> 
> 
> I still like OpenSchool....if www.openschool.org and all those are taken
> how about OpenSchool OS?  Even Schoolhouse Linux rolls off the tongue
> better than K12LTSP.
> 
> David N. Trask
> Technology Teacher/Coordinator
> Vassalboro Community School
> dtrask@vcs.u52.k12.me.us
> (207)923-3100

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Paul Nelson.............................. pnelson@riverdale.k12.or.us
Riverdale High...........9727 SW Terwilliger Blvd. Portland, OR 97219
voice(503)892-0722...fax(503)892-0723.. http://hs.riverdale.k12.or.us



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