Mac OS X and higher education lab deployments

Mar 26, '02 01:30:01AM

Contributed by: robg

From the editor: This is not your normal Press Release blurb (which, in case you haven't noticed, have more or less disappeared lately due to the amount of actual hints to be published!). The goal of the Higher Education Mac OS X Lab Deployment Initiative is to make OS X easier to deploy and maintain in a computer lab environment. They have created the macosxlabs.org website as a clearinghouse for information related to their mission.

If you work with OS X in the higher education arena, their website looks to be well worth a visit. Read the rest of the article for the full text of their announcement...

A group of us are working on a project called the Higher Education Mac OS X Lab Deployment Initiative. We are members of the Apple University Executive Forum (UEF), universities working with Apple to explore higher education trends and issues, with a specific focus on educational technology.

Our goal with this project, Mac OS X Deployment in Higher Education, is to simplify the task of installing and maintaining Mac OS X in computer labs. To that end, we have created a web site that lists our goals, what we've found so far (see documentation), and pointers to areas of ongoing exploration. We have also created a forum where registered members can ask questions and share their findings. We have created a list of resources (books and other documentation, web sites, mailing lists) and tools (including RsyncX, an implementation of rsync with HFS+ support).

Apple has recently placed several links from the education area of their web site to ours. We are pleased with this evidence of support of the work we have done so far.

Collaboration and sharing of ideas is essential to this project and it is our hope to create a community where lab managers can work together on this. Come share your experiences and questions in the forum, and pass this information on to anyone you know who is working on deploying Mac OS X in a lab environment.

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