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#3865: Canonical should offer a total migration+support service for schools
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Written by jiu the 8 Mar 08 at 12:00.
Category: Education.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
At the moment it's not easy for schools to make the decision to migrate to Ubuntu because of the lack of support and knowledge. I think Canonical should come up with a package deal where they provide all services for a migration to our favourite OS, with a focus on schools and administrations (which are quite different from business clients).
This would surely provide a boost in popularity with kids and they would naturally be more enclined to use it on their own computers afterwards.
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gespertino wrote on the 8 Mar 08 at 15:12
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It seems like a big task, but a great idea anyway.
I guess Microsoft won't like it (they have the ugly habit of step in with a deal-breaker when some competitor tries to get in touch with education, not before).
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Felix_the_Mac wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 01:07
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I am interested in getting Linux into schools but I expect that it depends on having applications available which are drop in replacements for those that they currently use for teaching.
So in any area you would need to analyse the local schools, find out what applications are used and ensure that you had suitable alternatives available that the kids and teachers could switch to easily. These alternatives would need to have similar features to the existing programs.
You would have to make sure that you did not infringe on any patents or copyrights.
It sounds like a business proposal not a Brainstorm idea!
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John Karahalis wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 03:42
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Schools are a huge market. Go for it Canonical, make Ubuntu/Edubuntu the de facto Operating Systems for schools.
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onesimus wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 21:14
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Before schools will adopt a new OS they will have to be convinced that it is a safe environment for the pupils. Consequently, there needs to be a level of control that the IT administrator would insist upon before deployment of a new OS.
Therefore, this idea links in with the parental control system: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2495/ which is currently getting a very negative response !
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shovelhead wrote on the 19 Mar 08 at 21:24
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Yes and No!
I am member of an "association de parents d'élèves" in our local grammar school. So another "daddy" and me care for the maintenance of the 8 school computers for the 40 or so pupils. We got the whole set running in EDUBUNTU (yesssss!) but we also know, that 92% of all the PCs in France run Windows (5% run OS-X, only the last 3% run Linux or desktop BSD) - we finally decided that we neet BOTH systems on every PC.
You can't teach the kids on "Linux Only" - it won't make them fit for the next school (as sad as it sounds!)
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jiu wrote on the 22 Mar 08 at 03:57
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interesting. Did you make Edubuntu the default boot option?
My opinion on this is that kids are getting enough exposure to windows out of school and that it really isn't all that different in practise at the end of the day.
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shovelhead wrote on the 22 Mar 08 at 21:33
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Yes. As all the PCs came with Win XP, we installed edubuntu afterwards. This, of course, will make edubuntu the default boot option.
Guess what: My daughter will celebrate her 7 th birthday this june. She never saw a Windows computer :o) My wife and her notebook, my PCs and server - even my son's PC (he'S 18 and switched over to ubuntu last december) - she simply never was exposed to Windows and will even have an EeePC for birthday.
I am happy about it, but I know that she needs some Win knowledge to make it on the next school (say from age 11 to 18). Real freedom is about choice and she - and all the pupils on the little grammar-school in our village (440 inhabitants) - will have a REAL choice because they will know both worlds.
After all, we CAN propose Linux because the school's director simply lets us go for it. Official policy and teaching plans in France are 100% Windows oriented.
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littlepaul wrote on the 23 Mar 08 at 17:17
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See the efforts of the german linux4afrika Project
http://www.linux4afrika.de/index.php?id=60&L=0
Actually they implement edubuntu in some schools in Tanzania since one year. The project is interested in sharing experience with other people.
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