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List of schools and people using Ubuntu in Education!

School/Deployment

Location

# and type of systems

Notes

Albany Senior High School

Albany, North Shore City, New Zealand

100 student desktop and 24 staff laptop computers

read: The Open Source School and New Zealand School Shows Microsoft the Door

School/Deployment

Location

# and type of systems

Notes

The Neighborhood Schoolhouse

Brattleboro, Vermont, USA.

3 Ubunutu 10.04 Pentium 4s with Edubuntu package.

Computers were donated by a local company, Chroma Inc. who was happy to load Ubunutu to wipe their business data, and help us. Saved $30 in dump fees too!

Centro Escolar Canton El Calvario

Cuscatlan, El Salvador

12 computers

Computadoras con programas educativos http://cecec.iespana.es

Andalusia Region

Andalusia, Spain

4000 schools, 380k netbooks, 200k desktops, 5500 servers

Largest known deployment, they use Guadalinex Edu, Ubuntu derivative with custom education and school management apps. All the management is centralized through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGA_(Advanced_Management_Centre)

Assam Amtron

Assam, India

28,000 systems

Northern India regional deployment

Finnish schools

Finland

100+ schools

Opinsys is the solution provider, http://www.opinsys.fi/en/ubuntu-in-education-in-finland

Coronado Schools

San Diego, CA, USA

dozens of netbooks at 5 schools

Actively seeking more Ubuntu solutions

San Francisco Bay area

San Francico, CA, USA

7 schools

The non-profit partimus.org refurbishes computers with Ubuntu/edubuntu/FOSS to schools

Learning Hub Ireland

Dublin, Ireland

10 computers

Local NGO

Longmont Christian

Longmont, CO

??

reported on education mailing list

Tralee Primary

County Kerry, Ireland

??

http://opensourceschools.org.uk/low-cost-ict-across-curriculum-tralee-primary.html

Alton Convent

Hampshire, UK

??

http://opensourceschools.org.uk/alton-convent-low-cost-computer-suite.html

Notre Dame, UK

Sheffield, UK

??

http://opensourceschools.org.uk/award-winning-open-source-notre-dame-high-school.html

Ren He Street Primary

Chongqing Yuzhong District

??

http://www.rhjxx.com/

World computer Exchange

Global deployments

27,000+

http://www.worldcomputerexchange.org/ They refurbish computers with FOSS (Edubuntu/Ubuntu) and deploy globally

Saint Stephen's Armenian Elementary School

Watertown, MA

ltsp lab with edubuntu

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=588775

Minnesota Public School

Minnesota, USA

??

http://scottnesbitt.net/ubuntublog/?p=21

Swiss Schools

Switzerland

9000

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1008601/swiss-schools-boot-windows

Chelsea School

Maryland, USA

??

http://ampache.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/chelsea-school-uses-ubuntu-to-create-vmampache/

kidsoncomputers.org

Global

100+

http://www.kidsoncomputers.org Labs in Argentina, Mexico, Colorado, refurbh with FOSS (Edubuntu) then distribute globally

Confalonieri Public Junior High School

Monza, Northern Italy

36

Kids built their own computers in school, then took home! http://stop.zona-m.net/node/106

Norris School District

Bakersfield, CA

several hundreds including Dell servers with Zmbra and VMware

http://thejournal.com/Articles/2010/07/15/How-To-Get-Started-with-Open-Source-in-K-12.aspx?sc_lang=en&Page=1

Michigan Area Schools

Michigan, Indiana, USA

2000+

http://thejournal.com/Articles/2010/07/15/How-To-Get-Started-with-Open-Source-in-K-12.aspx?sc_lang=en&Page=5

Westall Secondary School

Melbourne, Australia

??

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1014992/linux-extends-life-school-aging

Oakland University

Rochester Hills, Michigan, USA

LTSP Labs

http://cto.secs.oakland.edu/

Jia-Ding Elementary School

Kaohsiung County, Taiwan

Computer Lab

http://hsun.qdp.ks.edu.tw/info97/learn.htm

Toucheng Township Geng Fang Elementary School

Yilan County, Taiwan

Classroom

http://www.gfes.ilc.edu.tw/~gavin/mydata/webdata/2006FsResult/

African University of Science and Technology

Abuja, Nigeria

8 Servers, 80 Computer Lab Systems, 20 Administrative Computers, 400 Student Laptop. Ubuntu is OS of choice.

http://aust.edu.ng/content/computer-labs/

Institut Notre-Dame

Bertrix, Belgium

50 edubuntu pc's dual boot

Minneapolis Public Schools

Minneapolis, MN, USA

3 classrooms running Edubuntu, 50 thin-clients built into student work space.

http://groosd.blogspot.com

Yorktown High School

Arlington, VA

computer lab

have had a Linux lab since mid-90s, switched to *buntu in 2004 or 2005, has its own LUG

National center of Nuclear sciences

Tunis, Tunisia

11 computers (X2)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/kmezhoud/Bioinformatics

Computer Science Departement of ISET Rades

Rades, Tunisia

??

Computing Center of ENIS

Sfax, Tunisia

??

Telkom Institute of Technology

Bandung, Indonesia

informatics lab

use ubuntu for operating system course

Institut Torre Vicens

Lleida, Catalonia, Europe

Lucid Lynx (3 Servers & about 220 Desktops)

1100 students

Rakovica municipality

Belgrade, Serbia

Edubuntu 9.04 (1104 computers in 14 schools)

approx 1090 students

Vracar municipality

Belgrade, Serbia

Edubuntu 9.04 (1417 computers in 11 schools)

approx 1360 students

African Institute for Mathematical Sciences http://www.aims.ac.za

Muizenberg, South Africa

10 ubuntu servers, 130 ubuntu desktops, 100s of student laptops

Using http://www.systemimager.org to image desktops

Het Hooghuis http://ict.hethooghuis.nl/

Oss, The Netherlands

12 Debian Servers, 30 Ubuntu virtual servers, 500 thin-clients in LTSP-cluster, 5000 students and 500 employees using them

complete virtualized free software backend based on KVM, including Asterisk, Windows Domain-controllers and (forked) unattended Windows-deployment system

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