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If a bootable USB version could be developed for schools/kids with
suggestions of "buy this USB drive" and here's how you load
everything - that would help in a lot of cases. BUT....<br>
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<li>I underestimate the kids abilities - some are very sharp -
some look for the anykey. </li>
<li>In general many of the teachers work at their tech limit - so
if you came up with a scenario of "booting a computer into
another operating system" you will scare a lot of them. This is
a flip phone crowd we're dealing with. Tech isn't their friend -
it should be but it isn't. <br>
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<p>I think that's where we can play a role - the ESRI rollout was
botched in my opinion because it only targeted schools with
resources. The schools I like don't have that - but they have good
kids and good teachers. ESRI begged beyond the photo ops with
their employees for GISP's to help get their software working.
Internet is a luxury at the school - they have problems if too
many kids click on youtube at once. So I think OSGEO provides a
rollout for the rest of the kids that can't afford the tech and
the time with the "cloud". <br>
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<p>Maybe my fantasy is: <br>
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<ul>
<li>Bootable USB for easy upgrades to software (beyond the OSGEO
Live Disk - to many options will flip people out)</li>
<li>USB has QGIS, DATA, and a lesson plan. A lesson plan that
might tackle a very believable scenario kids can relate
to....maybe it's a neighborhood and school where you answer
questions about transportation, where students live, where they
go to the grocery store, etc...the second half will be what
their school and neighborhood looks like. Maybe they map their
school and surrounding area. </li>
<li>Lesson plan has to be easy for teachers to digest - some don't
know what GSI is (that was intentional because it's a very
foreign concept to them).<br>
</li>
<li>Rainforests and counting coffee shops isn't something they
will care about. How their neighborhood looks and how they live
- that will get some attention from the US kids. I assume all
kids. BUT - I'm not a teacher. <br>
</li>
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<p>Randy<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/27/2015 07:28 PM, Vaclav Petras
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Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:17:54 -0400[2]<br>
<span class="">> Ms Keith (on this list as of last
night and cc'd) has a lab but it is quickly going out
of date with regards to proprietary software. My wish
has been to replace everything with QGIS - GIS is GIS.<br>
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</span>And OS[3] are OS, so maximize the utility of the<br>
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> "older computers" at schools [being used] for
learning<br>
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and slap a Linux on them. The OSGeo wiki points to some
bundles, including (e.g.) DebianGIS[4], Enterprise Linux
GIS[5], and UbuntuGIS[6] (of which, IIUC, the latter is
the most active).<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">And sure enough, there are Linux
distributions designed to work well on (very) low-end
hardware, for example Lubuntu [1] and Xubuntu [2].<br>
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[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://lubuntu.net/">http://lubuntu.net/</a><br>
[2] <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://xubuntu.org/">http://xubuntu.org/</a><br>
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