Re: help with foss in schools case studies

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On 20 Aug 2008, at 07:47, "Richard Rothwell" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2008/8/19 jpd <[email protected]>:
>> hit a bit of a road block with our roll out of suse for education.
>>
>> We need to have a strong and valid argument from some where else to  
>> show
>> that other are actually using it.
>>
>> I would like close to complete studies, with as many "big names" so  
>> it can't
>> be just dismissed.
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm just completing a 1000 word case study on the Skegness Grammar
> school FOSS roll out.  It should be on the schoolforge.org.uk site
> within a couple of days.  There are some other case studies there.  I
> will do a pretty pdf of it.

Pretty PDFs good :)

>
>
> Have you thrown the Becta research at your bosses?
> http://publications.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=25908

No will dig that out

>
>
> What is the organisation?  School, college or what?

FE college

>
>
>> Also does any one know what can cause broken packet to cause a  
>> network to
>> collapse?
>
> Can you give more details if this is still a problem?

No, that's all networking has told us

>  I have a
> recollection of facing this problem before...
>
> rgds,
>
> Richard
>
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