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Our first engagement with Powys County Council was to provide strategic consultancy. We spent a week onsite at Maesydderwen School with teachers, pupils, ICT staff, and the Head and Deputy Head. Our task was to fully understand the School's ICT needs and to develop a vison for an all aspects of an innovative ICT solution, Hardware, Software, connectivity and pedagogical aspects. Our proposed solution to the School and the Council was a mixed infrastructure drawing from the best elements of Open Source and proprietary software and hardware.

Powys and Maesydderwen responded to the vision enthusiastically and commissioned us to make it real. Our next engagement with the Council and School was to provide deployment and system integration services.

Our solution was a mix of Proprietary and Open Source software, on a mix of hardware platforms and form-factors.

Hardware first:

A complete server room infrastructure.

Several hundred desktop machines.

A suite of 100 iPads.

A Mac Mini Sever.

MacOSX Desktops.

5 Android Tablets.

40 Staff Laptops.

Smartboards in Classrooms.

Proprietary software included Capita Sims, Active Directory for Windows Desktops, Windows 7 on the desktop PCs and MacOSX on the iPads.

And now for the fun part - we deployed a full range of Open Source software on the server farm for infrastructure and educational applications. The Open Source in use at the school includes: