Re: [OS:N:] Getting started

["Rich Vázquez" <rich.vazquez@xxxxxxxxx>]

There aren't necessarily case studies, but are primers based on
experienced folks

The IOSN is producing a series of primers on Free/Open Source Software
(FOSS). The primers serve as introductory documents to FOSS in
general, as well as covering particular topic areas in greater detail.
Their purpose is to raise FOSS awareness, particularly among
policy-makers, practitioners and educators. The following are
summaries of the primers have been published, or are currently being
produced.
http://www.iosn.net/publications/foss-primers

FOSS: Education
This primer covers the use of FOSS from schools to universities. It
provides a brief overview of how it can help in setting up the IT
infrastructure and administration of educational institutions and
considers software (mainly proprietary) which is now used as the basis
for IT curricula and alternative FOSS which is available.
http://www.iosn.net/education/foss-education-primer/


On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 4:10 PM, doug newcomb <dnewcomb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Karsten,
>
> I don't have a case study for you, but I can tell you the way we got
> started.
>
> 1) I set up Dansguardian  on linux as a proxy for their web traffic.
> This gave enough credibility to open source solutions to give a demo
> for:
>
> 2) K12LTSP - Implemented on 1 dual CPU Xeon 2GHz box with 2GB RAM and 25
> clients ( Pentium II 266 -450 MHz).  More manageable and no viruses, but
> things were rather sluggish when everyone opened OpenOffice.  Also added
> Samba for Windows Domain controller to replace Windows 2000 server.
>
>  During this time we found out that we could get surplus State
> government computers for $20 each (P4 1.7 GHz + 512 MB RAM), which has
> led to:
>
> 3) 25 Fedora desktops with IPtables configured to route all web traffic
> to the proxy server.  Centos server using NIS + Samba  for
> authorization/authentication.  Want to go to LDAP, but haven't gotten
> there yet.
>
>
>
>> We've got a small but fairly active group in Santa Cruz County looking
>> at some similar ideas.  One start is with a private school a few folks
>> are parents at.  I like that idea for a chance to test the process in a
>> controlled environment.  After that, we were frankly going to approach
>> the local charter high schools, see if anyone was interested in the
>> idea.  Figuring the case study would help.
>>
>> Is there somewhere that has a good set of case studies of schools (of
>> all types) migrating infrastructure, productivity, and/or coursework to
>> be open source based?
>
>
> Doug
>
>
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