Ubuntu in Education resources from Canonical

[Charl Wentzel]

On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 08:50 -0500, Belinda Lopez wrote:
> Wow - I've already been blown away by the work being done in the
> Education sector.  Ubuntu in schools, just makes sense.  Yesterday I
> was directed to this great map showing schools in Finland with Ubuntu
> deployments:
> http://bit.ly/amFiOO  and more on what is happening around open source
> there:
> http://www.opinsys.fi/en/mista-on-hyvat-koulu-tehty
> http://www.osor.eu/news/fi-over-a-hundred-schools-using-open-source

Hi Belinda

This is absolutely amazing! This is probably the best marketing tool we
have for Edubuntu, i.e. the existing footprint of Edubuntu!

If we add a page to the Edubuntu site showing a world map with an
indication of the number/list of schools running Edubuntu in each
country, it will go a looooong way to help eliminate schools biggest
fears around using Edubuntu... 
 - "Is it relevant?"
 - "Can it do the job?"
 - etc.

The site should not just be list of features and howto's but it should
show schools that Edubuntu is a "force" backed by hundrends of
companies, schools and even countries!

More than anything, I think that this will help us "sell" it!

Regards
Charl