I started working with my school district about 10 years ago. The problems I find there are always political and never about technology. What worked for me is to find one champion in the system that speaks the administrations language. I found there were a ton of people who wanted to know, just not at the top. I introduced scratch to the elementary STEM school about 5 years ago, https://scratch.mit.edu/. It was the districts first involvement with opensource or community. The project has been very very successful and it opened the doors to more. But then they hired a new superintendent that thought it was stupid so..that happened ;( linda On 8/21/16 10:43 AM, Sandwhich Eyes wrote: > I have already given one presentation at the Blair Taylor School > with the principal and an IT guy and have been asked to give a follow > up talk to them and the head of the IT department. > They had macbook air for the older kids and ipads for the younger > ones. They bring these home at the end of the school day. This time > they decided to go with cromebooks. It one of the best.. rated or > testing, can't think of an appropriate word, but with the quality of > the teachers out here i am pretty sure they could give my kids sticks > and a box of sand and they would still be well prepared for life on > their own/college. I am 100% positive they will be much better off if > they can learn without restrictions from open source hardware, > software, classes (like MIT offers open courseware) and the ability to > choose, to not be scolded for breaking some license agreement or for > reading and modifying code should that be an interest. I want them to > have Linux. > I have gave a compelling argument in the last meeting. This time I > want to have as many resources available to provide for them, > including reasons why schools frequently choose to not use Linux. > Anything will help. I had quite the presentation last time and the IT > guy didn't know what Unix or BSD 4.4 was; or Linux, BSD, Solaris. > Seems Ubuntu provides computers reloaded with Linux and tablets so how > they didn't find anything about open source or Linux/BSD/ETC is beyond > me. I gave them a live Ubuntu OS on a thumb drive. I wanted to make > some more and use persistence to load up some information to give to > the IT people who are possibly way under informed, to give them plenty > of time on their own to absorb what open source has to offer; mostly > community! > They asked many questions about community. Yes we work together and > keep our favorite distributions alive often without corporate support! > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20160822/da76ac88/attachment.html>