Free Software for Schools: Success Stories
Submitted by DPic on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 4:23am.
Please look into these stories:
http://www.sd73.bc.ca/district-operations.php/page/linux-in-education/
http://www.linux.com/articles/62285
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_...
http://www.itinfusion.ca/linux/school-district-ditches-windows-for-linux...
Also look at entire public school systems, governments, and big businesses switching to Linux:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#Government
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#School_and_education
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#Business
And these stores keep showing up-- i'd like to see Newton in one soon!
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Thanks for sharing these links, Danny. I appreciate your insights and enthusiasm. I think the key to creating a similar story for Newton is to identify key needs in the NPS? environment and then position solutions like these to meet those needs.
While I'm one of the biggest proponents of open source?, it has to be in response to solving specific problems. We can't expect to move to Linux just because it's open source and is a "good" thing to do. Right now NPS has too many good things on its to do list and never enough resources.
We would need your help demonstrating why this is more important than 100 other good ideas competing for limited NPS resources.
How much does the NPS?
How much does the NPS? spend on lisencing fees?