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M. Fioretti | 25 Sep 2008 07:22

[OS:N:] Italian LUG turns Pakistani school into a educational model

As per subject, see http://www.linux.com/feature/148311

Ciao,
	Marco

PS: I always welcome pointers to material for similar articles.

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Bryant Patten | 24 Sep 2008 00:23

[OS:N:] 2008 FOSS and K-12 Education Awards

The National Center for Open Source and Education (NCOSE)
      announces the winners of the

* 2008 FOSS & K-12 Education Awards *

The NCOSE FOSS and K-12 Education Awards are given as expressions of  
appreciation for the hard work and dedication of individuals who  
contribute immense amounts of their time and expertise to advancing  
the use of Open Source solutions in K-12 schools. In its inagural  
year, the Center has chosen individuals from all across the continent  
that have made an extraordinary contribution to Free and Open Source  
Software use in the field of K-12 education.

2008 Recipients

Robert Arkiletian - Fl_TeacherTool

Eric Harrison - K12LTSP

Daniel Howard - GOSEF

Paul Nelson - K12LTSP

David Trask - NELS/FOSSED

This year's awards will be presented to the recipients at the Open  
Minds Conference ( http://www.k12openminds.org/ )in Indianapolis,  
(USA) on Sept. 26th, 2008. The awards are being underwritten, in part,  
by Resara, an Open Source Educational Platform ( http:// 
www.resara.com/ ).
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Rex Dieter | 23 Sep 2008 18:05
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Re: [OS:N:] fl_teachertool with ltsp 5.0

> Should fl_teachertool work with fedora 9 with ltsp 5? Just like to get
> an opinion on viability before I put the time in to the installation.

As maintainer of fltk in fedora, I heard that it should.

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M. Fioretti | 23 Sep 2008 17:38

Re: [OS:N:] Article on Open source home school

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 07:42:35 AM -0500, Gary Frederick wrote:

> I hope to get my wife's homeschool (note the correct spelling...)
> mailing list involved in getting you info. It will take a few days
> to do that and then the responses (if any) will be slow coming back.

OK, thanks.

> A homeschool that uses open source may not use Linux. OpenOffice.org
> should be used in all schools and there's other open source software
> that's as good (gimp and Firefox come to mind).

absolutely yes. If we made of this an all-or-nothing issue we'be wrong
and we would also accomplish much less. Besides, I think a very
important thing which is maybe even more important in homeschooling is
to teach respect of law and playing by the rules. First thing is to
not violate licenses. So if you bought a PC with Windows included and
then use OpenOffice on it to not install Microsoft Office illegally,
that's an excellent start, something which shouldn't be dismissed
because you didn't switch 100% to FOSS.

> I do want conversation on the list - if it is of general interest.
> AND I do encourage others to get in touch with Marco if you can
> help. He is one of the good guys :-)

Thanks :-)

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John Hansknecht | 23 Sep 2008 13:30

[OS:N:] fl_teachertool with ltsp 5.0

Should fl_teachertool work with fedora 9 with ltsp 5? Just like to get
an opinion on viability before I put the time in to the installation.

Thanks,

John Hansknecht

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M. Fioretti | 23 Sep 2008 09:30

Re: [OS:N:] Article on Open source home school

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 06:14:04 AM -0500, Gary Frederick wrote:
> I got your email the day after we got power back after Ike...

Hope everything is well, of course! I've answered your other questions
in a private mail, no need to bother the list with them.

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doug newcomb | 19 Sep 2008 23:10
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[OS:N:] Getting started

Karsten,

I don't have a case study for you, but I can tell you the way we got
started. 

1) I set up Dansguardian  on linux as a proxy for their web traffic.
This gave enough credibility to open source solutions to give a demo
for:

2) K12LTSP - Implemented on 1 dual CPU Xeon 2GHz box with 2GB RAM and 25
clients ( Pentium II 266 -450 MHz).  More manageable and no viruses, but
things were rather sluggish when everyone opened OpenOffice.  Also added
Samba for Windows Domain controller to replace Windows 2000 server. 

 During this time we found out that we could get surplus State
government computers for $20 each (P4 1.7 GHz + 512 MB RAM), which has
led to:

3) 25 Fedora desktops with IPtables configured to route all web traffic
to the proxy server.  Centos server using NIS + Samba  for
authorization/authentication.  Want to go to LDAP, but haven't gotten
there yet.

> We've got a small but fairly active group in Santa Cruz County looking
> at some similar ideas.  One start is with a private school a few folks
> are parents at.  I like that idea for a chance to test the process in a
> controlled environment.  After that, we were frankly going to approach
> the local charter high schools, see if anyone was interested in the
> idea.  Figuring the case study would help.
>
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doug newcomb | 17 Sep 2008 00:28
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[OS:N:] Re: open-source-now-list Digest, Vol 29, Issue 3

At my son's charter school, the computer lab is entirely made up of
Fedora 8 computers with Centos box as the server ( note, when using nfs,
make sure you have more nfsd processes than clients ).  The server also
acts as the Windows PDC using samba (NT style domain, waiting for Samba
4) for the windows desktops/laptops that the teachers use.

	The windows boxes all have Openoffice and firefox installed.  Most also
have gimp and/org inkscape.

Doug

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> Subject: Re: [OS:N:] RE: open-source-now-list Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1
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> I'm interested.
> 
> I do not have a lot to say at the moment...
>   and
> We are active in the homeschool community so our mileage may vary. :-)
> 
> I would be interested in hearing what open source others have at their schools?
> 
> OpenOfficeorg?
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Stuart D. Gathman | 15 Sep 2008 19:21

[OS:N:] Open source home school

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, "Gary Frederick" <gary.frederick <at> jsoft.com> wrote:

> I'm interested.
> 
> I do not have a lot to say at the moment...  and We are active in the
> homeschool community so our mileage may vary. :-)
> 
> I would be interested in hearing what open source others have at their
> schools?

We home schooled for 15 years (now at a Classical private school for our
remaining little one).

For home school computing, I bought a $400 Dell server running Linux
(a Dell 500SC - decommissioned it last year, now have a Dell 440SC).
I installed LTSP (ltsp.org), which allows discarded low power PCs
to serve at thin clients.  Bulky CRT monitors were free/cheap, and are now free
since everyone is upgrading to LCD.  This provided 5 computer workstations
with a full complement of opensource educational software for $400.

Favorite apps: gcompris, openoffice, dosemu plus some old but excellent
DOS edutainment like Math Rescue and Word Rescue, tux typing.  (Note,
yes I purchased *Rescue - written by a homeschool mom.)

Now a days, our college age girls have their own laptops (running Fedora 9).
It is a real hassle making the retailer refund the Windows Tax when buying
a laptop.  (And kind of unfair since M$ sticks them with it.  But they need to
learn to stop signing contracts with the devil.)  You can avoid that by buying
one of the Ubuntu preinstalls - even if you don't run Ubuntu.  Unfortunately,
the pricing is the same as for a Windows preinstall for most vendors, but
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Frerichs, Chad | 15 Sep 2008 15:26
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[OS:N:] RE: open-source-now-list Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1

I am still listening, but not hearing much. I would also be interested in a new/different list since this one
is a bit stagnant.

Chad Frerichs 
Director of Technology 
Okoboji Community Schools 
Milford, IA 51351 

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Jeff Kinz | 13 Sep 2008 15:23

[OS:N:] List activity?

Hi all,
Is the OSN list still active at all? 
If it isn't:

1. Does anyone want to revive it?
2. Or does anyone want to start an alternative?
3. Or can anyone suggest an existing org/community that 
   is a reasonable duplicate of it? 

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