[Glastonbury] debian@stdunstans (was Just a little idea)

[steve]

Ian Dickinson wrote:

>Martin Wheeler <mwheeler at startext.co.uk> wrote: 
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>>>Currently the Network is remotely managed by
>>>fensystems.co.uk.
>>>We pay about £1500 p.a. for this.
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>>Any hope of getting the school to pay this to
>>//you// for doing the same thing?  :)
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>I thought that the way to put bread on the table in a
>world of free software was precisely to charge for
>providing ancillary services like support?  £1500 pa
>for managing an entire network seems very good value
>to me. That's £10 per machine per year on a network
>the size of St Dunstan's, which isn't very much time
>at any sensible labour rate.
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It is true that fensystems, namely Dan Lynch and Michael Brown 
contribute to the  development of Mandrake. Also their are other 
branches from this development originally started with Redhat and the LTSP.

>Perhaps, as you suggest, Steve could set up a small
>experimental network of locally-mananged systems ...
>as much to give the more advanced/adventurous students
>something to muck about with as anything else.
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>Ian
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I was thinking of something like this. anyone on the group want to 
volunteer to help with this as an after school extra-curricular project.
I also want to start a B.U.G. "Blender User Group" for students one 
lunchtime a week as we have at least six students who are using it 
already outside of school and more who want to learn it. Currently I am 
not able to incorporate it into the ICT scheme of work, but will be able 
to soon methinks.

Tks,
Steve.

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