At 11:04 15/10/02 +1300, you wrote: >Dunedin LUG has a good librbary which is all donated, but its a lot of >work to keep going from what I understand. >
SNIP >We probably don't have enough to equip a small school with LTSP?? SNIP >-- >Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I like this idea - set up a primary school with some linux machines on their network - 'Give me the child at primary school and I'll give you tomorrow's purchasing controller/Sysadmin/Programmer'. teach them Linux early before they get too used to the other OS. Perhaps we could help some schools recycle their old Macs as Linux machines? Or their older PC's? We could use our membership with its knowledge to go into a school and provide them with some free expertise and convert some of their machines to Linux (eg any server machine?) Am I talking through a hole in my head? Or could this be a good idea? <Flame suit> Happens to mention his kids go to Westburn Primary. Their resident computer expert (who isn't) has just gone overseas for a year - No-one else is even as 'computer literate' as I, which isn't much! (Anyone else with a favourite school? Should we make a list, then work our way through it, school by school?) </Flame suit> STRINGER & SON per: David J H Stringer STRINGER & SON, - For all your legal work; P O Box 1386 CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND Phone 64 - 3 - 366 1152 FAX 64 - 3 - 366 1151
