Re: [PLUG] Community Service Project (Devil's advocate)

[Mike Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

MITCHELL MALTENPORT (mmalten@comcast.net) had this to say on 07/11/03 at 11:51: 
> 
> Huh?
> 
> As I recall the original posting by Jon Nelson, the idea was to provide 
> computers for districts which couldn't afford 'em.  So 'what the school 
> already has' doesn't make sense.  

The idea is to give the kids a PC in their house, not in a classrom. So the
schools may have *some*, but not enough.

> 
> I'm not sure if 'what their friends already have' makes sense either, 
> but then I'd naively extrapolated poor school district == poor 
> neighborhood.  
> 
> In any event, these computers are donated to classrooms.  Games?  Char 
> software?  Why would either be installed?

See above.

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>
> Date: Friday, July 11, 2003 10:31 am
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Community Service Project (Devil's advocate)
> 
> > Kyle R. Burton said:
> > .
> > >
> > > If it doesn't cost the installers any more to do 98 vs Linux, 
> > why not
> > > poll  the kids and their families and let them choose?  List 
> > what each
> > > one comes with, the beneifts that we feel relate to each 
> > offering and
> > > allow them to choose their own destiny (perhaps with an offer to
> > > re-install their system if they change their minds later?).
> > 
> > Windows will be the most common answer. :-) That's what they've 
> > heard of;
> > that's what they've used at their friends' house; that's what the 
> > parentsmost likely use at work (if at all); that's what the PCs at 
> > school(likely) run; it's what they use at the library, probably.
> > 
> > Most of the kids will say they want games, and cool chat software. 
> > Somemay want programming stuff, if they're incipient geeks. The 
> > parents will
> > want more than that for the kids.
> > 
> > That's been my experience with the younger (< 12 or so) crowd, anyway.
> > 
> > > Linux:
> > >   Pre-installed with:
> > >     - web browser (value $0)
> > >     - full office suite(s) (value $300?)
> > >     - programming languages (value $500?)
> > 
> > Well, there is a free version of C for Windows, I believe. Ditto 
> > for perl,
> > python, etc.
> > 
> > >     - web page editor(s) (value $79.95?)
> > 
> > Front Page Express on Windows is a web editor, and is free. And 
> > web pages
> > can be edited using open Office these days, I believe.
> > 
> > >     - image/graphics software (Gimp) (value $200?)
> > 
> > Gimp is available for Windows, and is free.
> > 
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