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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