Jacqueline Morris: Can you tell us more about your work? Why inside a trailer? Who are your counterparts? What is the reason for this kind of "housing"?
Brian Condon/Others: In Scotland do you know if any e-learning classes are provided? Or is this just for introductory and "showpiece" events?
Arnaldo Coro Antich: Ten computers seem not many? What purpose are these used? I would imagine they are not net connected? Could they be? What exactly is their purpose? Showcase or actual training/education?
Lee Barken: Is wireless reliable enough to network the computers inside the bus to the server? each other? Or were you thinking of computers with wireless capability to hot spots?
Fred Mindin: I will try to chase down the Palm Springs guys. Again, it would be interesting to see if their purpose was to showcase - two-three days here and two-three days there...or was it to provide a "working" place --- as it would appear by way of Jackqueline's comments?
NOTE: My *hope* is that the trailer will never move...or only after the location itself has "failed". The whole purpose is to have something that can be replicated and sustained by ongoing operations - (What I envision is a sometimes training place, like on Saturdays for kids for keyboarding and games; sometimes for use as an online shopping help desk; sometimes as an "introduction" to the world of e-learning - come inside and find out how YOU can attend Harvard, MIT or Podunk U; sometimes to demonstrate brand new software; and of course sometimes to show off hardware from Apple, Dell, Gateway - and Linux?
The really hard part is the revenue model - Can this kind of undertaking deliver intellectual property or services of sufficient value to support itself on an ongoing basis? Without government support or do-good handouts?
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At 5:22 AM -0400 12/6/04, Jacqueline Morris wrote:
Not sure about 22 computers... I work sometomes out of a 40ft trailer, and the most we have been able to fit is about 14, using LCD monitors. That was the most comfortable distance for the people working in it. CRTs would require even more space, I would think.
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