I've got plenty of time, and a lot of linux experience, though not that much with networks - it's hard to teach yourself network admin on a benefit.
I could do a lot of what's needed. Wesley Parish Quoting Derek Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > In the past, there have been many discussions about how we can promote > linux. This sort of got no where. An unfortunate situation. Let us have > > something a bit more concrete. > > I propose that we offer to do a rollout of a LTSP based network at a > local school. > > Yes, some have said, "but school boards want to feel good by spending > lots of money". (apologies, cannot find the quote) > My view is that this may be true. > Schools, with strong rich boards and PTAs will probably hold to this. > However, I suggest that poorer schools don't hold this view. > Poorer schools have fewer options to be choosy. > > > ================================================= > Ok, > so what is required? > > 30 computers to be used as terminals. > > fixes/installations on those terminals. > > creation of a server. > > on going sysadmin work. > > training of one staff member as a sysadmin. This will be as much, or as > > little as the person can cope with. Ranging from > a)knowledge on restarting printer queues, adding/removing users to > the everything. > > Finding a school that is willing to be involved. I can think of two > schools immediately that would be candidates. Please let us not discuss > on > this list which schools - but I am sure you can all think of a school or > > two. > > Network cables, ethernet cards and switches, networks, power cables etc > > Money - or a business that will sponsor, or both. > > In my view, there should be no monetary cost to the school. They just > have > to provide a room that can have the terminals installed, and a staff > member to work as a sysadmin. > > Donations from clug members. > Money and time. > > > > Derek. > > -- > Derek Smithies Ph.D. This PC runs pine on linux for email > IndraNet Technologies Ltd. If you find a virus apparently from me, it > has > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] forged the e-mail headers on someone else's > machine > ph +64 3 365 6485 Please do not notify me when (apparently) receiving a > Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/ windows virus from me...... > > > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
