:: Intrepid Spaniel ::

Good article showing benefits of Open Source in schools. Big savings, lower maintenance costs, lower disposal costs, lower software costs, increased student/computer ratios.

One story from the article…
“”Our school has been running the Linux terminals for students for over two years. We currently have 110 student terminals available. We use OpenOffice for our student and faculty. The conversion has been a great success, savings are over $100,000 while our users remain satisfied with the computer tools they have available. You may read this article for some details. In 2003 we were running near to 110 five year old machines with Windows NT and Office 97. We also had new machines that were running Windows NT and Office97 and needed a software upgrade. The $100,000 savings was the amount saved from switch to a Linux terminal server configuration on the student lab PCs and switching to OpenOffice on all faculty and student PCs.”

Yes, $100,000.
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This is from the Girl/Chocolate Films release “Yeah Right”

They skated on green boards and the boards were edited out.

Not much educational value, but I think it is pretty cool. Makes me want to learn to skate again.. The intro to the film, however, did have some slo-mo closeups of riders boards, and was very instructional.

Can you see the 30something parent of 3 hangin out at the skatepark? My son would be embarrassed since I never was that good on a skateboard. Check out the video..

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