Colorado Team: Library Outreach

[Dave Thacker]

On Tuesday 06 February 2007 00:48, David Overcash wrote:
> Greetings from the Colorado community team!
>
> One of our team members recently suggested that we pursue local
> libraries as points of conversion, and the goal was confirmed by our
> team members in our most recent meeting.  We realized that we would
> rather not re-invent the wheel and thought to ask you all first if any
> of you have pursued this avenue of contact.  We are looking to convert
> both kiosk computers and entire computer labs to Ubuntu, and providing
> the necessary local support to get them on the right track.  Would
> additional support be a good place to reference Canonical, or should
> that stay in our court?

Hi neighbor to the west! 

I've done an assessment for the Nebraska Team.  The Omaha (largest city in 
state) Public Library runs it's own home grown applications on it's windows 
based network.  Tough nut to crack.  Since I can't convert their labs right 
now, I'm going to try and place some freedom toasters in the libraries, 
Ubuntu books in the collections, and CD's in their CD collections.  

We have many small towns within a three hour drive of Omaha, and we're just 
starting to contact them to determine their needs.  I'd be happy to 
collaborate on an assessment tool.  

Could you further explain your vision for the kiosk computer?  Are you 
thinking about something that fulfills a library function?  Freedom Toaster? 

>
> I would greatly appreciate any ideas, comments, or links to
> presentations previously associated with converting libraries to
> Ubuntu for either kiosk computers or entire computer labs.  Thanks for
> your help!

I'll add a hearty "me too" here.


Good Luck David, we'd love to help.   

Dave Thacker
Admin, Ubuntu Nebraska Local Community Team