[OSCTC-planning] install privileges and our curriculum

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

Good call.  I think thumb drives might work, although I'm not super
familiar with them so I have the following questions:

- With a live cd/thumb drive, can you save documents, install programs,
etc?  Or is everything new again each time you boot from it?
- How wide a range of architectures do these things support?  What
questions do I need to ask about the computers I'll be booting them on?
- How expensive are they likely to be per drive?  I'd love to be able to
just give them to our students.

CCing Kate/Kep, a friend of mine who is interested in figuing this stuff
out.

- Shauna

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Alex Bayley <skud at growstuff.org> wrote:

> Ubuntu live CD?
>
> > On 16 Oct 2014, at 17:13, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In November, I'm going to be doing two short workshops at campuses where
> students tend not to have laptops, so we'll be using computer labs.  I am
> told that students will not have install privileges on the computers.
> >
> > Because these are short events, it's fairly easy to pick a curriculum
> that does not require installing anything (do IRC via webchat, make github
> changes via the website) and I think all of that is still valuable.  But
> installing things is a key part of most open source use and contribution
> and I do think we do a disservice when we ignore it.
> >
> > Do folks have suggestions for ways to convince the IT/administrators at
> these schools to allow installation? Are there strategies that would allay
> admins' security concerns?
> >
> > best
> > Shauna
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