[Inschool] Granger Christian

[Adam Williams]

>>Granger Christian school (Granger Indiana just on the Mich border) just
>>put up a new building.  I was asked to help some Davenport University in
>>doing evaluation for network needs and such.  It looks like I will put
>>in the phone system and network.
>How long a drive is this from Kalamazoo?  I live in Hickory Corners (NE of
>Kzoo) & would get to 94 by either sprinkle or Battle Creek, so that might
>add at least a half-hour.
>>Regarding Network OS, they have a
>>couple of church members that were making recommendations.  One of them
>>owns a small PC company (larger than mine, but less service and
>>knowledge), and in being members adds weight to their opinions.
>Of course.

Yes.  :)

<RANT>
It is off topic,  but one of the things that ***REALLY*** irked me about
working for a religious institution (back in the day), was the total
disregard of things like "conflict of interest".  It may not apply here
at all,  but on this topic venting is too powerful and urge to resist.
</RANT>

>>Of course, their recommendation was "we'll setup Windows2000 server,
>>upgrade the workstations...".  Yeah, looks great on PAPER.  They have no
>>hardware or money for licenses for all new software.  So how are they to
>>migrate a Win9x peer-peer clunking network to something useable that
>>they can teach on?  Ehem...Linux anyone?  At first they were VERY averse
>>to the idea.  I convince the Prinipal of the school and then met with
>>the project director this past Saturday.  I brought my laptop along
>>(which is running RedHat 7.2 now, not debian).  I let them play with
>>OpenOffice, Evolution and some apps.  They do have a proprietary package
>>(they just purchased 25 licenses for the week prior).  But, I will see
>>if Wine will run it.
>>The next step here is to setup a couple of PC's on Linux for the staff
>>to play with.  After I get Linux in there, I am setting them up on LUGs
>>for support and info.
>What is the nearest LUG?

"Fully operational"?  Probably us.

>>If anyone cares to lend a hand on network setup (cable pulling, OS
>>config....) let me know.  I would really like to do this right and set
>>this up as a template for success..so other schools will follow suite.
>If it is not too far, I would like to help, even though it is not a public
>school.

Young minds being introduced to Linux.  Doesn't matter to me what sect
they belong to,  lets just do a school of some type somewhere.  Then we
can point and say "See, your not the first to try our hair-brained
idea!"  That is always a big selling point.