Re: [opensuse-edu] SuSE in LPAR on as400 featuring openSIS

7 Mar 2009

      Kevin,
While I expect to be heavily involved in representing openSUSE at SELF,
I am also going to bring my co-workers and founders of OS4Ed to be the
representatives of openSIS and OS4Ed.  Together we will be bring to SELF
40 years of education technology experience.
I can not speak to the availability or readiness of the LPAR for June,
the Hardware we are on is donated to the POC and that is supposed to be
completed before April. I will get my friends to speak with Mainline
about joining us at SELF and making the LPAR available there.

It would be my pleasure to visit with you and the CSCLUG regardless of
when ;) I have been reading the CSCLUG mailing list everyday for a while
now and I am anxious to meet everyone!
JT

Kevin J. wrote:
...
Wow, very nice! Btw, Zonker just committed to a Platinum SELF
sponsorship so Novell/openSUSE will have a strong presence there. I'm
hoping that you and he can get HP to sponsor SELF and possibly
showcase the education initiatives that you're working on. If you
think you'd have something ready to show by June with Mainline, you
may want to see if they'd be interested in getting a table at SELF to
present their proof of concept. The timing couldn't be better to push
open source in school systems.
If you know of any other open source education projects/initiatives
that would be interested in promoting their efforts at SELF, please
let me know.
Also, if you are available to come to Charleston towards the end of
March, we will be setting up the computer lab at the Gussie Green
Community Center. Check the CSCLUG site for details
http://www.csclug.com/?q=node/120. The date hasn't been announced yet,
but it is the first computer lab install for the Clemson Institute of
Economic Development. I'd like to meet with you, Harry, and Semmy from
CSLUG after the install to discuss the formation of a consortium of
volunteer-based computer labs to be built out in conjunction with
colleges and universities throughout the Southeast. The idea is just
in the beginning stages, but I think your experience with openSUSE and
education systems will be a tremendous asset.
Hope to see you there!
Kevin
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:27 PM, James Tremblay aka SLEducator
mailto:fxrsliberty@opensuse.us> wrote:
openSIS is proud to announce that we are beginning construction of
    a Linux server on an IBM iSeries computer using a SUSE LPAR.  This
    is a
    joint venture proof of concept with one of IBM's premier hardware
    resellers,  Mainline Information Systems. The goal of this effort
    is to
    demonstrate that openSIS and many of the other packages offered
     in the
    openSUSE for Education project will be viable solutions that run
    natively on the IBM iSeries.
The proof of concept is designed to demonstrate the viability of
    openSIS
    and openSUSE on the iSeries platform, which runs an older green screen
    SIS (TERMs) for approximately half of Florida's school districts.  If
    the proof of concept is successful, OS4Ed and Mainline will be
    positioned to offer Florida districts an alternative SIS that is free
    and modern and will run natively on the same hardware they use today.
     This will allow these school districts to migrate to a modern
    web-based
    SIS with no licensing costs, no proprietary software licensing
    costs and
    no hardware costs.  Best of all, school IT personnel will not have
    to be
    retrained to support the hardware platform as it will remain the same.
     This is very important during a time where Pearson School Systems is
    ending SasiXP support in 2010 and state budget cuts in the
    billions are
    being made.
Please stay tuned as we will post follow announcements and updates  as
    we move forward with this exciting proof of concept.
--
    James Tremblay
    openSIS Product Specialist
    http://www.os4ed.com
    mail james "AT" os4ed.com http://os4ed.com
    CNE 3,4,5
    MCSE w2k
    CLE in training
    Registered Linux user #440182
    http://en.opensuse.org/education
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