Friday, November 21, 2008

Re: Economic Recession and Tech Budgets

The K12OSN list is a great resource:

https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn

The edubuntu (an Ubuntu distribution geared toward education) community also has a couple lists, including one specifically for end users: http://edubuntu.com/Community

Cheers,

Bill

--- On Fri, 11/21/08, Inman, Alex <Alex.Inman@whitfieldschool.org> wrote:

> From: Inman, Alex <Alex.Inman@whitfieldschool.org>
> Subject: Re: Economic Recession and Tech Budgets
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Date: Friday, November 21, 2008, 11:24 AM
> < Are there any resources that you can recommend aimed at
> K-12 Linux
> usage?>
>
> Not as many as I would like...
>
> The best I've found are:
>
> The K-12 Open Minds Conference http://www.k12openminds.org/
>
> The National Center for Open Source in
> Education...particularly the Free
> Software for Schools catalog http://ncose.org/node/3 (click
> the link on
> the page to view the catalog online)
>
> A nice article on Open Source alternatives:
> http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-craz
> y-and-their-open-source-alternatives/
>
> I also like the FLOSS group on Classroom2.0 ning:
> http://www.classroom20.com/group/freeopensourcesoftware
>
> I run a blog on our experience with Linux:
> http://linuxlaptops.blogspot.com
>
> I'd love for folks to post more!
>
> Take care,
> Alex
>
> Alex Inman
> Director of Technology
> Whitfield School
> St. Louis, MO
> 314.434.5141
>
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