[Lias] An opportunity to grab!

[summer at corridors.wa.edu.au]

On Thu, 18 May 2006, Andrew wrote:

>>> 
>>> Offers of pc's where turned down, when approaching schools. Computers in
>>> schools are managed at a regional head office level. Take for example,
>>> Trangie Central School (my old school, central western NSW, all pcs are
>>> managed from Dubbo, 54kms (1 hour away), same as with Bourke (4 hours
>>> away)
>>> 
>>> Craig
>
> A quick question in response to this bit. Did you find the offers were being 
> turned down from a System Admin contact. ie was it the System Admin who was 
> pulling the strings?
>
> The reason I ask is that in the small time I have been trying to organise to 
> get Ubuntu into a local high school, one of the biggest things I have noticed 
> is how much control a single System Admin member of staff has, and this has 
> proved the single biggest challenge to me.
>
> Its probably a common thing in any corporate/goverment IT network maybe 
> someone can enlighten me more on this? But the problem I have with this is

My wife is a teacher. Courseware from the Dept is for Windows.

I'm the single System Admin at a private school. Any educational software we're
likely to get is for Windows.