Group+3

Group 3

Statewide Education Service Centers/Districts that set up servers and such but limits customization || Need holiday clip art in Open Office ||
 * Success Strategies || Do Not Do This Advice ||
 * Trade software liscence money and turn it into Professional Development || Buy Promethean Boards ||
 * Professional Development on classroom management when you have 5-7 computers per classroom. || Need to have an educaitonal based list of what you can use on Linux and what open source alternatives are available. go beyond Office. ||
 * Don't "give back" the money || Need help with "windows only" problems ||
 * Trade software money for hardware || Need help with costs of per-machine as schools ramp up the number of computers. ||
 * Has a person who can set up server
 * Spend money to have it setup, then cheap to run. ||  ||
 * Maine is starting to see local consultant supporting the open source software such as Moodle in schools || Problem with Cease and Desist on Moodle Trademark but there is a new whitepaper from law student may help. This limits creation of the grassroots Moodle experts to support Moodle. ||  ||   ||
 * Grassroots...put a Kiosic in the hall and let people play. Then a few weeks later sent an email to teaches asking who wanted another computer, got a few, then more. || Not much sharing of Moodle Classes to share curriculum. Paul Nelson has a site should be publicized. ||  ||
 * Mass Deployment strategies || Focus on "Getting more computers into the classrooms" rather then a big announcements about "Linux" ||  ||
 * Move towards open software (FF, OO) and load open source apps onto the windows machines, this makes its easier to move Linux. || Get out the word ||  ||
 * Engery savings ||  ||   ||
 * Focus on concepts not on specific programs so people know skills are transferable Windows, Linux, Mac ||  ||   ||