Many of you who attended the ILUGC meet On saturday have background on this. For rest here is a brief info,
I am working with a valley based NGO called Home of Hope to setup a computer lab for the orphange set up in the tsunami affected coastal town of Karaikal. For more information on home of hope, and their projects, following are the links Home of Hope: http://www.hohinc.org Karaikal Project: http://www.hohinc.org/projects/kariakal.html / http://hohlab.org/ HOH Featured on NBC : * *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6T8YmxPOcE Moving Pictures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKk4WPV6s0M We are using Edubuntu + LTSP setup with one server and 8/16 client machines. The setup is almost ready, customized in tamil, and most of the machines have already been shipped to karaikal. I am personally visiting the orphanage this weekend to finish the setup. I could probably be able to make arrangements for a couple more people if there is enough interest. Now, as we discussed in the meet, we need a few volunteers to educate the teachers there on using edubuntu and the packages that come with it. Eventhough, most of the software are self explanatory, I feel there is still a need to atleast educate them on which ones are used for what purposes. We could design a syllabus as well if we have enough human resources. I would appreciate, if you could reply back with your interest to volunteer and we could take it further from there. Thanks gourav _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
