Group+1

Group 1

Bryant Patten (NCOSE)
 * Success Strategies || Do Not Do This Advice ||
 * Cathy Malmrose (Berkely, CA)
 * CA sued Microsoft for $1Billion and Cathy provides Linux hardware with MS money
 * ACCRC.org (hardware recycler providing Linux hardware)
 * Advertise the stability, not the "free"
 * Never sacrifice the quality
 * You need the "one person" on the inside that is passionate (anywhere on the org chart)
 * Get the person to just try it
 * Pretty is a requirement (presentation and ecosystem)
 * Free Software for Schools Catalog
 * Have an appropriate support network and appropriate training

Keith Belzowski (Michigan City Schools)
 * small successes to start
 * pretty but never at the expense of functionality (higher end graphics etc that don't work on old systems)
 * Need to have a passionate person and build your network of supporters aim to seek at meet in the middle with top down support and bottom up requests
 * Updates are frequent

Alex Inman (Whitfield)
 * Instiutional support
 * helping people take personal ownership
 * make it about the result
 * Let them do what they couldn't do before
 * Look for innovators and celebrate them
 * Feature student innovation || * Programs that require purchase of THINGS and not services can limit implementation of Open Source
 * OLPC may not be the right road
 * Institutional Requirements that don't work should be identified early and understood
 * Allow for "workarounds" to be the stopping point
 * Allow your passionate person leave
 * Free does not mean zero total cost of ownership. Thus, careful how we sell it
 * Be cautious about comparing apples to oranges. Linux vs Windows on similar hardware. If we force it to old machines we create the perception that Linux runs slowly
 * Be cautious about updates...make sure it works.
 * Because we are asking people to change the bar for support and smooth success is higher.
 * Make teachers feel forced ||