Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Salvador Mirzo Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: more on broken schools Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:46:23 -0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: <87y0xd2jn4.fsf@example.com> References: <67b21894$14$17$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <87tt8odsb7.fsf@example.com> <1b411147-a833-8c73-2d85-e5c749fc23b9@example.net> <87ikp03y4r.fsf@example.com> <87ldtsjk7l.fsf_-_@example.com> <7e8c77e6-4d20-b1af-4698-c25f892330d9@example.net> <87ikokifl1.fsf@example.com> <61986dab-6a03-b266-0cd4-da95bcce70bd@example.net> <878qpf9h59.fsf@example.com> <874j015stb.fsf@example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:46:25 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="284b53354082a8681c403d325df2439b"; logging-data="1405261"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/I79ayL2Ps67Kqei+ed5Yr6c5dYyh1QlQ=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:a3p36wDod087GxrrKyZg/ujpwnU= sha1:t8VGo96B30XvtWon3DnRVWtGlk8= Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:26867 D writes: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote: > >>>> >>> >>> Yes, I do. =) Are you interested? ;) >> >> Not quite. :) I like to run my own stuff. But I'm happy to see that it > > What a shame. =( Would have been great to add a Brazilian school to my > customers! You can still add a Brazilian school to your clientele. I'm just not a school. :) >> works over there. It seems like a pretty nice business. I would really > > It's alright. It's more of a side business actually. The main business > is consulting as teachers, and we then have the lab environment as a > nice value add service that we sell when we get the consulting gig as > teachers. So the main service is what? A set of teachers to give a school the ability to teach computer courses? Suppose I'm a high school. How do would you offer to me your services? I currently have a single teacher who teaches a Python course---the teacher is a math teacher. > The challenge is inertia and trust. There are a lot of schools who run > azure, are unhappy, and refuse to change because the alterantive is > not azure. So they end up paying 10x or more, because they do not > trust small business. It is very sad. =( That made me think your service is just a cloud-like service---storage, office-like web applications, mail, calendar, video conference et cetera. Are there teachers involved? >> love to run a business like that. And I would be able to if I we were >> back in the 90s, I guess. Am I too off the facts? > > I think you could do it today if you dedicated a couple of months to > building up the environment. OpenStack has come a _long_ way and is no > longer the enormous beast to setup that it once was. That's interesting. But tell me about the teachers because I didn't get the whole thing yet. I would think a service like that would require a 24-7 support as the most challenging part.