This would be a fantastic opportunity and a generous offer from you guys. We are watching the goings on there with a great deal of admiration for the job you are doing for Linux advocacy in Hawaii.
It is also timely news because we have been discussing the possibility of this for a few meetings now. This might be what we need to really get the ball rolling. An immediate problem is the one that Warren noted: mainly, where the heck would we store these things while we are fixing them up and putting together some labs? Any ideas, BILUG folks? --Eric Eric Jeschke http://cs.uhh.hawaii.edu/~jeschke On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Warren Togami wrote: | R. Scott Belford wrote: | > | > Jeff Zidek has arranged for 1500, not a mis-type, 1500, Pentium 166 | > machines from Hickam. This is likely to be about 30 pallets worth. The | > P166's we have received so far tend to have 3COM 3C905 nics, at least | > 16mb of ram, and pci video cards. Even if 1/3 are junk, we are still | > talking about an amazing quantity of hardware. Regretfully, if I was | > able to find the space to store all of these, the few of us volunteering | > our time would be overwhelmed. You can help. We can use your help. | > Perhaps you or your business could help store them. We have people who | > want computers. We have computers to give them. We have enough | > resources to create the revenue to buy servers for them. We even have | > the hardware to build light but effective Terminal Servers. We just | > need some of your volunteer time to make it all happen. | > | > scott | > | | 1500 is a HUGE number. Due to the immediate storage problem that this | causes, we need to quickly find schools at which to implement LTSP labs. | | Friday, February 7th, 2003 | 8:00pm | Channel #mplug on the Freenode IRC Network | http://freenode.net | irc://irc.freenode.net/mplug | | We should get Big Island Linux Users Group | (http://cs.uhh.hawaii.edu/BILUG/) onboard during this meeting in order | to discuss the possibility of shipping hundreds of computers to their | island for their own LTSP rollouts at schools. | | During this online meeting we should also discuss our public relations | efforts in getting Linux in local media (newspaper, magazine, | television) as well as ways of funding LTSP servers for schools. | | Warren Togami | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | _______________________________________________ | Bilug mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://cs.uhh.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/bilug |
