Thank you Tom. Always good to hear from you. On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Tom <tompoe at meltel.net> wrote: > http://tinyurl.com/cnsy5r9 > > The above link: > 50 Places Linux is Running That You Might Not Expect > > On 08/21/2016 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, Minnesotatclug-list at mn-linux.orghttp://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -- > You cannot be a Republican and support universal health care. Are you a Republican? > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20160821/c89afec0/attachment.html>