[OSCTC-planning] install privileges and our curriculum

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

Okay, this link seems pretty relevant:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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