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The Shuttleworth Foundation/P4 Radio TuXlab Mega Install

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Every Saturday morning since the beginning of April, the Shuttleworth Foundation Open Source team joined forces with Cape Town's P4 104.9FM radio to create an awareness of open source and promote open source activities.

The exciting culmination of this campaign was the selection of ten schools to take part in a MEGA INSTALL on 16 June.

The Shuttleworth tuXlab Crew together with SLUG (Schools Linux User Group), volunteers and the schools tackled the challenge of installing 10 tuXlabs in one day. (That's over 210 machines).
P4 104.9FM radio broadcast live from the winning school - Duneside Primary School in Mitchells Plain.

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Duneside received the official P4 radio lab and the live broadcast took place from this school on Youth Day - 16 June.

The nine other winning schools are:

Maitland High School
Wynberg Secondary School
Gardlandale Primary School
Windermere Primary School
JS Klopper Primary School
Walmer Junior Secondary School
Welcome Primary School
Masivuke Primary School
Yellowwood Primary School

Click here to find out more details about these schools.

Some interesting stats about the TuxLab Mega-Install



Total number of learners in the 10 schools:	7846
Total number of staff members in the 10 schools:	219
Total number of computers donated by the Shuttleworth Foundation:	160
Total number of servers donated by the Shuttleworth Foundation:	10
Total number of computers & servers installed by the TuxLab teams:	240 pc's & 10 servers
Estimated number of people who will be introduced to Open Source software as a result of the TuxLab Mega-Install:	10 000

Become a TuXlab Volunteer
We are looking for people to assist us with future TuxLab installations. No need for technical experience. All you need is enthusiasm. for more info.

Click here to find out more about our TuXLab program

Shuttleworth TuxLab Programme for Schools
The TuXlab programme involves the setting-up of open source computer labs in schools. The programme was launched by the Shuttleworth Foundation in August 2003 to prove the effectiveness of open source software as an economical school computing solution. The Foundation believes that open source software should be the preferred choice of software for schooling in South Africa.

The TuxLab programme aims to establish 80 TuXlab centres in Western Cape schools over a period of a year and a half. The Foundation's Open Source team, together with volunteers, enthusiastic learners and teachers are well on their way to achieving this target and have successfully set up over 30 TuxLab installations in and around the Western Cape region.

More information
CLICK HERE to find out more about this cost-effective programme as well as the contact details of the existing TuXlabs.

How about a TuXlab at your school?
Do you want your school to benefit from a TuXlab? and include your and your school's details and we'll get back to you with an application form.

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