Re: SuSE in LPAR on as400 featuring openSIS

Kevin,
While I expect to be heavily involved in representing openSUSE at SELF,
I am also going to bring my co-workers and founders of OS4Ed to be the
representatives of openSIS and OS4Ed.  Together we will be bring to SELF
40 years of education technology experience.
I can not speak to the availability or readiness of the LPAR for June,
the Hardware we are on is donated to the POC and that is supposed to be
completed before April. I will get my friends to speak with Mainline
about joining us at SELF and making the LPAR available there.

It would be my pleasure to visit with you and the CSCLUG regardless of
when ;) I have been reading the CSCLUG mailing list everyday for a while
now and I am anxious to meet everyone!
JT

Kevin J. wrote:
> Wow, very nice! Btw, Zonker just committed to a Platinum SELF
> sponsorship so Novell/openSUSE will have a strong presence there. I'm
> hoping that you and he can get HP to sponsor SELF and possibly
> showcase the education initiatives that you're working on. If you
> think you'd have something ready to show by June with Mainline, you
> may want to see if they'd be interested in getting a table at SELF to
> present their proof of concept. The timing couldn't be better to push
> open source in school systems.
>
> If you know of any other open source education projects/initiatives
> that would be interested in promoting their efforts at SELF, please
> let me know.
>
> Also, if you are available to come to Charleston towards the end of
> March, we will be setting up the computer lab at the Gussie Green
> Community Center. Check the CSCLUG site for details
> http://www.csclug.com/?q=node/120. The date hasn't been announced yet,
> but it is the first computer lab install for the Clemson Institute of
> Economic Development. I'd like to meet with you, Harry, and Semmy from
> CSLUG after the install to discuss the formation of a consortium of
> volunteer-based computer labs to be built out in conjunction with
> colleges and universities throughout the Southeast. The idea is just
> in the beginning stages, but I think your experience with openSUSE and
> education systems will be a tremendous asset.  
>
> Hope to see you there!
>
> Kevin
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:27 PM, James Tremblay aka SLEducator
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     openSIS is proud to announce that we are beginning construction of
>     a Linux server on an IBM iSeries computer using a SUSE LPAR.  This
>     is a
>     joint venture proof of concept with one of IBM's premier hardware
>     resellers,  Mainline Information Systems. The goal of this effort
>     is to
>     demonstrate that openSIS and many of the other packages offered
>      in the
>     openSUSE for Education project will be viable solutions that run
>     natively on the IBM iSeries.
>
>     The proof of concept is designed to demonstrate the viability of
>     openSIS
>     and openSUSE on the iSeries platform, which runs an older green screen
>     SIS (TERMs) for approximately half of Florida's school districts.  If
>     the proof of concept is successful, OS4Ed and Mainline will be
>     positioned to offer Florida districts an alternative SIS that is free
>     and modern and will run natively on the same hardware they use today.
>      This will allow these school districts to migrate to a modern
>     web-based
>     SIS with no licensing costs, no proprietary software licensing
>     costs and
>     no hardware costs.  Best of all, school IT personnel will not have
>     to be
>     retrained to support the hardware platform as it will remain the same.
>      This is very important during a time where Pearson School Systems is
>     ending SasiXP support in 2010 and state budget cuts in the
>     billions are
>     being made.
>
>     Please stay tuned as we will post follow announcements and updates  as
>     we move forward with this exciting proof of concept.
>
>     --
>     James Tremblay
>     openSIS Product Specialist
>     http://www.os4ed.com
>     mail james "AT" os4ed.com <http://os4ed.com>
>     CNE 3,4,5
>     MCSE w2k
>     CLE in training
>     Registered Linux user #440182
>     http://en.opensuse.org/education
>
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James Tremblay
openSIS Product Specialist
http://www.os4ed.com
mail james "AT" os4ed.com
CNE 3,4,5
MCSE w2k
CLE in training
Registered Linux user #440182
http://en.opensuse.org/education