Hi Jason,
I'm pleased to meet you and welcome to BWorks.
I'm particularly interested in your experience with the Lighthouse
organization. I was impressed with their fund raising ability at start up but
was concerned about their sustainability. We want to avoid the situations that
forced them to close.
Steve DeLorey
burkej71 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm interested in getting involved with ByteWorks, and I thought I
would introduce myself. I'm Jason Burke, and in the past I was
involved with a similar project that I started called Linux Mentors.
At that time, 2000 to 2003, I worked with the St. Louis Urban League
and Lighthouse community outreach center to teach at-risk kids
computer skills using open source software. As I'm sure most of you
know, it's difficult to keep these types of projects running (the
Urban League eventually received a grant from MS, so Linux was ousted
there, and Lighthouse ended up closing down due to financial issues),
so I applaud your efforts and success in keeping ByteWorks up and running.
Currently, I'm working on a project that may be of interest. I'm
trying to find the cheapest, most effective way to upgrade old
computers (and build new ones for educational organizations). At this
point, I've found a new (all-in-one) motherboard that I'm testing that
only costs $60 and delivers 1.5 GHz of computing power. I just ordered
a DDR2 memory stick for it (for $23), so I'll be upgrading an old PC
of mine this weekend, and performance testing a couple of different
OSs on it.
I'll be happy to share my findings on this if anyone is interested.
Anyway, I'm hoping to stop by the shop on the 16th to take a look and
meet everyone.
Regards,
Jason
PS: The motherboard that I'm looking at can be found here:
http://www.clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=A4842001
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