Some 16,000 students in the mountainous South Tyrol province of Bolzano in northern Italy will find 2,460 classroom computers upgraded from Windows XP to Linux when they return to school this month. (…) That’s not all. More than 20,000 liveCDs will be burned “with the same (Linux) software they will find at school,” Russo said. “These will be given for free to students and their families” for use at home, he said. If you are interested read the entire article on DesktopLinux.
Bolzano province is in north east of Italy, really north, just northern than Trento Province. Hopefully we will be able to do something similar as well and hopefully soon you will read on DesktopLinux “Linux displaces 5130 Windows XP desktops in Trento province schools”. This is still a hope but we are working on it and surely the mediatic impact will be great if you think that Microsoft had opened a research center in Trento. Wish us good luck.