[aklug] netbooks at ASD

From: Marc Grober <marc@interak.com>
Date: Wed Mar 04 2009 - 18:21:56 AKST

Since the District told all Board candidates to feel free to
ask questions of staff, I "officially" asked Jane if she
would respond to my unanswered questions as well as provide
a technical briefing on the netbook project in as much as
the only information that ASD has provided to date has been
this:
http://asdlibrarians.wikispaces.com/file/view/5Jan+2009.pdf
Since the IT Budget Review Team had promoted use of open
software (see http://asdtech.wik.is) I thought it only fair
to talk up ASD IT if in fact they were moving in that
direction (as Mike knows, the fact that we had a linux
server running squid as well as linux, MS Windows, and OS X
workstations running, openoffice, firefox, etc was not
celebrated at that time by ASD IT......)

This is what I received back in pertinent part:

  Edtech is launching a webpage soon on the netbook pilot.
  Watch for that. Also, you may be interested in this
  website explaining the ubunto OS we're using.
  http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu/unr
  The netbooks are also using open office so we are exploring
  open source where we can.
  I know I was in at least one meeting with Mike Barselou
  from AKLUG where he was wonderful about offering any help
  we needed. I don't believe we've taken him up on his offer
  yet as things have been going to smoothly, but he is aware
  of the netbook rollout.

Regarding my query as to the citizen advisory committee on
technology:

  In response to your citizens advisory group question,
  the superintendent has chosen not to have an IT advisory
  committee.

Marc Grober
http://grober.asdk12.info

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