[K12OSN] K12LTSP Presentation and Contact List

[steve at hargadon.com]

My company sells refurbished Dell Optiplex computers, which work well with
LTSP, and we have large quantities of identical machines.  We're still
working on a price point for selling them with a bootable nic as LTSP
workstations--any feedback?

I've also thought about creating pre-installed LTSP packages for small
organizations--where we install LTSP on a server, and send it preconfigured
with user logons, workstations, a switch, and cabling so someone would plug
it in and be going right away.  We have all the hardware to do it, it would
just be a matter of marketing.  Is there anyone else to whom this would be
appealing?

Hope the commercial direction of this post is OK.

Steve

Original Message:
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From: Stephen J Smoogen smoogen at lanl.gov
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:47:32 -0600
To: steve at hargadon.com, k12osn at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] K12LTSP Presentation and Contact List


steve at hargadon.com wrote:
> Next week I am giving a presentation on K12LTSP to the Non-Commercial
> Refurbishers Summit in Chicago. 
> (http://pcsforschools.org/ncrs/standards.html)  What started originally as
> a 15 minute slot has now been expanded to 90 minutes, and they have asked
> me to set up a working lab as well.  Attending will be non-profit computer
> refurbishers from all over the country (and some international as well).
> 
> As a part of my presentation, I'd like to present a list of schools and
> businesses who are running LTSP--both to show some of the scope of
> implementation, and also to serve as a resource.  If you would be
> comfortable being listed, would you please send me a note with your
contact
> information?
> 
> Last month I helped a charter school in Hawaii install K12LTSP, and I am
> working with the Candian government to set up 2,000 LTSP labs in Kenya,
> Africa (which should be about 40,000 workstations).  For the last 16 years
> my company has refurbished computer equipment, and schools and school
> districts have been some of our most consistent customers.  I have three
> demonstrations of K12LTSP scheduled this month, and I am interested in
> providing K12LTSP installation and consulting as a part of our services. 
I
> would also welcome any help, advice, or contact related to this as well.  
> 
> I really appreciate all who have worked to create such a great use for
used
> computers, and I have found this list to be an enormously helpful
resource.
> 

I think this list would be useful in other ways. I have a bunch of 
schools in this state that would really benefit from this, but they need 
to know that it is being used elsewhere and have contacts to talk to 
before believing a wild eyed scientist.

I would also like to get a good list of refurbishers.. I have a long 
list of non-profits with small pockets and they would like to get a good 
list of people to buy from.



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