Stars Supplying Technology to At Risk Students

[Tek Ang]

Have you tried the student guild/association?

If the intention is directly for student, without any required support from the college, then we can just bypass the middle person (college) and go directly to the student, i.e. through their association/guild.

The student guild of the university that I went to (Queensland University of Technology, in Australia) had their own store in the campus where they provide services such as second hand books, computer programs, computers etc. I am sure the the universities/colleges in Canada operates pretty much the same way.




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>From: Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com>
>To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
>Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 3:20:42 PM
>Subject: Re: Stars Supplying Technology to At Risk Students
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>Even for free stuff, a large(ish) organization like Georgian College still needs to do administrative stuff like acquisitions, inventory, allocation, transport, disposal, &c.  Strangely, this kind of thing is easier to maintain for large volumes of goods than one or two units.
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>If you could find a way to build a sustainable relationship with Georgian, and possibly relieve them of their administrative burdens to run a free PC program then the adoption rate would be higher (can't get any lower, that's for sure).
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>It may be worthwhile to hook up with an organization like Free Geek Toronto http://www.freegeektoronto.org/ or Computer Recycling http://www.theworkingcentre.org/at/comp_recycling/comp_recycling.html to see how they manage to get computers out to the public.
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>Of course, it may be possible that Georgian has signed a contract which gives Microsoft exclusive rights to all computer deployments.  It is even possible that Microsoft has made a donation (software, computers, even money) on the condition that only MS products are used at Georgian.
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>It is also possible that Georgian have chosen to teach, use and advocate only Microsoft products to their students in order to maximize their employability, seeing that employers are using mostly Microsoft products. Obviously they have missed the rising tide of Linux in the workplace...
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>--Bob (who confesses that he works for Computer Recycling)
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>On 11-03-28 02:40 PM, Chris wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> As you know I was trying to get Linux Ubuntu introduced to Georgian College
>> Students with free computer systems for any student who needs one.
>> I am very disappointed to find out that they were just being polite, the 2
>> pc's I dropped off were left on a shelf.
>> I even offered to set them up and maintain them.
>> They will only deal with Microsoft.
>> As far as I know the Students were never told there were FREE Computers
>> available to those in need.
>> Pretty sad statement on their part.
>> 
>> Chris.
>> 
>> Linux! The Freedom to Choose.
>> www.bglug.ca
>> 
>> 
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