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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi, </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am going to be the technology teacher at Beacon
School, a small, personalized, progressive school in Oakland. <BR><A
href="http://www.beaconschools.org/home.htm">http://www.beaconschools.org/home.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's not a public school, but it's not just a bunch
of rich kids; the school founder Thelma Farley makes a real effort to get a
truly diverse bunch of kids in there (many on scholarship).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, there's a computer lab there with its own DSL
line and fixed IP address. The lab contains 10 iMacs, 9 relatively
new Dell PC's, and 1 larger generic PC being used as a file server (it's
running Windows 2000 Server). </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The school wants to shunt the iMacs off to the side
as a multimedia lab, and get 10 more PC's to replace them so the lab (i.e., the
client OS's the kids are learning and using) are unified. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>They don't have much money, so are looking for
creative ways to accomplish this.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Assuming we can get the necessary number of PC's
(10 more), I'm willing to consider converting the whole lab to Linux, clients
and server(s). Even if we don't convert everything, I'd like to add a web
server running Linux to the mix. I have an extra PC I'll donate for this
purpose.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If anyone in the group has suggestions or help to
offer, please let me know. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks--<BR>--Tim</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>