School in Swindon considering going Linux!

[alan c]

Mike wrote:
> 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?

Swindon is UK, county of Wiltshire, towards the south west of England

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