How to start a revolution?

[Phillip Smith (communitybandwidth.ca)]

Hello Mel, William,	Byron, Thomas, Joe, Colin, Ilya, Wil, Marc and Toni,

Many thanks to each of you for your interest, ideas and thoughts. Totally appreciated
and helpful ... especially to know that so many of you are interested in helping out
and that some of you are neighbors -- this "inter-web" think is just awesome, isn't it
  ;-)

Anyway, just a quick note this evening (apologies for the group response) to
acknowledge your emails and to say that it looks like the consensus is to hold a small
gathering -- perhaps at the lab -- to connect and kick around some ideas.

If there are specific dates/times that would work for you, please let me know.
Generally, the best day to visit the lab -- when it's not full of youngsters -- is
Saturday. Would that work for people? Perhaps we could explore a date in late October
or early November?

And, also, a few of you had some specific questions ...

Regarding case studies or examples, what I'm looking for are specific instances where
a school or learning environment have rolled out a mid-sized lab with only Linux or
related OS operating systems and software. I've got many case studies of OS in the
non-profit sector (that's my line of work) but not many in the education/learning
sector ... specifically where I could point to them and say "they did it and here's
how and let's give them a phone call and chat".

Typically, most non-profits I've worked with -- especially this one -- is not likely
to be interested in trailblazing or by too visionary. However, that being said, this
lab is one of the most professionally set-up I've ever seen -- good rack mount system,
good cabling, servers, etc. So, if there are examples of others who've done it first,
it would be great to know about.

Finally, one question that seems to keep coming up for me is how do you handle user
authentication and "roaming profiles" in this type of a set-up? I can think of a few
ways ... but I've never used Un*x in a true multi-user/desktop environment and wonder
how this is done easily? Kerberos? LDAP? Or just basic Un*x authentication?

Anyway, that's all for this weekend... again, thank you for your response and input.

Phillip.


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