School in Swindon considering going Linux!

[Mike]

Dermot Mc Laughlin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have only recently subscribed to this list and have been impressed 
> with the level of support that it has provided. I am the head of 
> Business Studies and ICT at Greendown Community school in Swindon and 
> I'm also charged with ICT Strategic Management. I'm new to the job and 
> have a little bit of Linux experience. I have talked to the schools 
> senior leaders and the network manager here and people are certainly 
> interested in the school clients/servers being switched to open source 
> (for cost reasons initially). In fact, I'm slowly introducing the idea 
> to staff and students already.
>
> The network manager and I would love to come by to meet up with people 
> on this list to discuss feasibility. Can you let me know when the next 
> such event is happening? We would need a fair bit of help getting 
> ourselves skilled up and we would be regular posters on this list.
>
> Thank you,
> Dermot Mc Laughlin
>
You don't say where Swindon is, which country?