Re: more on broken schools

D <nospam@example.net> writes:

On Mon, 10 Mar 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
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Yes, I do. =) Are you interested? ;)

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Not quite. :)  I like to run my own stuff.  But I'm happy to see that it

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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

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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?

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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.