On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 09:24:43PM +0100, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > 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 have read it... > 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 ? Ok. I have make a Debian Box with wwwoffle and a local Mailsystem (only lokal Mail per computer) with a nice Web-Interface. Now I write a letter to all local schools, to support the internet connection.... Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "I'd prefer to avoid standardization by implementation donation." -- Bob Scheifler
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