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
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