On Friday 22 July 2005 04:20, Jarrod Major wrote: > take this to the next level. As far as I am concerned once the box is in > place only the Executive should be allowed to get access to it. They can > decide whether to grant shell access to anyone, I would hope that we would > take a very conservative stance on this. The website is our way of > communicating to the world. Trying to make more out of it is unnecessary.
that's why i suggested a second machine. one for the website, email lists, etc. and one to offer tier 2 members in good standing an account from which to run sessions (i think FreeNX is a perfect candidate here) and you don't need to poll for hardware requirements, just assign a budget and the task to someone qualified in the group and let them have at it. they can report their proposal to the group to ensure nothing overly silly is done, but it's not a complex process. > As a former Executive and party to some cursory plans to do this I am > excited at the possibility of us being able to do this on a larger scale > than we originally envisioned. We wanted to get in touch with some charity > organization that we could get a used computer loaded with Linux and OSS to > a needy family, no strings attached. perhaps another avenue would be a social services organization. i haven't done much work with such groups here in canada, but in the states they often tended to be struggling when it came to IT due to budget and human resources. these groups help many numbers of families and individuals and tend to have good stewardship so we could be comfortable in knowing that the donations were being put to good use. sounds like a cool SIG opportunity for those interested in both linux and humanitarian projects and could be done with or without a CLUG windfall. -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43
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