28.06.09

Date:
Sunday 28th June 2009

ETRU Weekly #33

Attendees:

 * 1) user:mrstacey
 * 2) user:daibarnes
 * 3) user:robthill


 * Apologies**:
 * 1) user:dajbelshaw (I've written a guide on how to create ETRU podcasts - would be great if people could volunteer to do #29 up to tonight's meeting!)
 * 2) user:HPSManager Heaps of work to do!
 * 3) user:Grumbledook Preparing for a busy week but have put a link in below.

Agenda:
user:mrstacey I would also recommend the following page - [] user:grumbledook
 * If anyone in attendance was at Education 2020 could we get some feedback?
 * **Getting the most bang for your buck** - given shrinking budgets across schools at the same time as the demand for ICT is going up, I'd like to look at a few of the options, and hear from anyone with experience of any of the following
 * **PURCHASING OPTIONS**
 * Buy outright
 * School lease over 3 /5 years, with the option to buy at the end of the period
 * Students/parents lease netbooks over 3 years, with school providing for those unwilling / unable to lease
 * Laptop drive - haven't seen this used, but I was wondering about asking parents to consider donating old machines, especially in the New Year, stick OSS on them and use them as additional classroom machines
 * **HARDWARE**
 * Thinking about upgrading the remaining ICT rooms that weren't the beneficiaries of our last leasing deal two years ago first
 * Then purchasing enough laptops to make sure all ICT rooms are 1:1
 * Then looking at some kind of netbook purchase to create some bookable resources. Probably without the trollies, which seem to be costing as much as the machines that go in them
 * **SOFTWARE**
 * If we went with netbooks, do we go for XP and Office to keep in line with the rest of the school or a version of Linux & OSS?
 * If the latter, which versions of Linux would you suggest?