[KLUG Members] Re: Linux in high schools.

[Ralph M. Deal]

Below is a copy of correspondence between Scott van Singel
and Ralph Deal regarding the Sturgis school system operating systems.
>From now on, we'll keep our correspondence on the listserv rather than
private as long as it seems of general interest.

Earlier I had offered to spend time with Scott at his site working on 
implementing LINUX server software at least.  I have editted our latest 
message to try to have it coherent to a new reader:

Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 09:14:02 -0400
From: Scott Van Singel <svansingel@sturgis.k12.mi.us>
To: Ralph M. Deal <deal@cc.kzoo.edu>
Subject: Re: Linux in high schools.

Ralph,

   Sure I would love this information shared to the KLUG group, they have helped
me many times with Linux questions.
Also, after some testing and a good answer to education with Linux I would like
to put a presentation together to share this information. If we are successful,
then we could pass it along to other education institutions.

Scott "V"

"Ralph M. Deal" wrote:

> Scott Van Singel wrote:
> >
> > Ralph,
> >
> >     Thank you for your interest in Linux in a Public School environment.
> > At this time we are undergoing some major conversions ( I am deploying MS
> > 2000 services) and brining Exchange 2000 on line this month. I pretty much
> > had no other options but to use MS for this email solution.
>
> Too bad you didn't get LINUX working before having to commit to MS.
>
> > I would like to however, test and configure a Linux system for Email and
> > possibly for a Web server.
> > I could not run the applications on a Linux server that I have to have at
> > this school.
>
> What is the hardware on the server and what version of LINUX are you
> using?
>
> > What I would like us to do is look, configure, and test different Linux
> > apps and make sure they can work for what we need here.
> > We just signed a School Agreement for Microsoft for Licensing reasons. I
> > would love to dump MS all togher but, I have to make sure everything will
> > work before a major change like that.
> > I will give you a call or email in a couple of weeks and we can put our
> > heads together and see what we can do.
>
> I look forward to that cooperation.
>
> > Once again, Thank you for your help and support.
>
> Scott, if you don't mind, I'd like to share our correspondence with the
> full KLUG membership since it is the only real KLUG activity on the
> education front that I know of.  We certainly have KLUG members who are
> school  system administrators who use LINUX successfully at least as servers.  I could serve as an
> intermediatary to help get you comfortable with LINUX working on your server(s).
>
>         Best,   Ralph

--
Scott Van Singel
Technology Director
Sturgis Public Schools
216 Vinewood
Sturgis, MI. 49091
Office: (616) 659-1512
Fax: (616) 651-1571
Email: svansingel@sturgis.k12.mi.us

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 NOW, among school system administrators, who is willing to spend some
time with me or Scott and me to answer questions on problems we have
encountered or to explain how a particular server works in a particular
network?
		Ralph

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