Hi, Jorge! Sounds very exciting. Jorge Higueros wrote:
The first step is with the profesesors the university buy 4000 laptops with Ubuntu and and we are the training and the second is present the proyect to the migration to Free Software all University and timeline 2 years and is posible 1 year
Perhaps a disk-image or kickstart with customized applications, menus, settings, and other options can be worked out with the first focus groups. How are these 4000 to be phased in and who will be the first guinea pigs for the first few pilot projects? (They can be short, quick projects.) Can the OEM work with you on this? What plans are there for making and publishing online HOWTOs and other documentation? e.g. reference management, compound documents with OOo, etc. You're making a clean start so, maybe IPv6, too?
and the staff is maybe working with four organization and lugs we are 500 person working full time.
Have you made a list of applications you will actively support? Which applications are encouraged but not supported? Which applications are they on their own with? KDE is highly customizable and since your team is likely setting up highly configured desktops, it or Xfce are worth examining. Xfce will be fast. How about a disk or kit for those who want to follow progress but won't have the laptops?
And proyect it has to with a documentation of the other universities aruond the world working with free software
Are there plans to provide distribute, network accessible storage with or without web service? If so, OpenAFS is a useful tool for the infrastructure: http://workshop.openafs.org/afsbpw08/ AFS can be combined with Kerberos+ldap (or maybe hesiod) and the two can be part of providing a federated workspace. You have two tasks there. One is the technical infrastructure (e.g. AFS cells and cross-realm authentication) another is planning the taxonomy (for the whole institution and for various classes of users and groups). The file storage can have directories for each user or group or course. Subfolders there can be made available to the university's web server. Regards, -Lars