As you could imagine, this is mainly targetted to German maintainers and
users. The German Telekom recently announced a project to sponsor a free
ISDN internet connection for all 44000 German schools. Partly due to high
phone fees, only a fraction of schools currently have an internet
connection (cf. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-11.02.00-003/).
I could imagine that Microsoft et al. will now jump in and provide schools
with cheap or free licenses of their software for running these T-Online
connections.
Now I wonder if there are people interested in running a campaign for
"Debian an die Schule". Debian has all that's necessary to run a ISDN
router. Debian already has quite a lot of educational stuff, and more
interesting things are available or are coming up in the SEUL project.
I could imagine that it's quite a fun project to come up with a Debian
GNU/Schulinux derivative that's tailored for use in schools. A first step
would be to build a plug'n'play configuration for a T-Online ISDN
router/firewall on a cheap machine. A next step would be to come up with
a decent configuration for Debian school workstations, that provide all
kinds of free educational software--a big gain over Windows based systems
where the schools would have to order and pay for most programs.
Any opinion or comments on this ?
Gregor
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