Had a question for you all.
Do you all think that an elementary school would benefit from Ubuntu?
As in would teaching them at that age make it easier for them to get away from Windows, because kids have influences on there parents and if we can get to them that young with Ubuntu or another distro then they can grow up using it and what not.
I bring this up because I had an idea about setting up my daughters school up with maybe a lab of nothing but Linux Desktops running Ubuntu of course hehe. She is only 5 but maybe the older kids would benefit from this the 4-6th graders since when they start going to Jr. High or Middle school they will start to use more computers. And the setup of Linux on older computers is easier, well not easier but it would be cheaper, I mean look at the videos of the mobile school bus in India with nothing but Linux. If you look at that, these kids are way ahead of our own because of that. And they wait just to be able to use that, this all could even be a pushing point to bring up to the schools themselves, we could get volunteers from the community that are familiar with Linux to come in for an hour or so on different days and teach the kids a little bit about Linux. Tell me what you all think. Lets throw out some more idea's, see how feasible my idea is and if others would actually help with a project of this nature.
Marious
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