Actually UH Info and Comp Sci is working with SOny on gaming technology for use in primary education. The side goal is also to train a bunch of students in game console programming techniques. Chris Lee of Sony Tri-star fame seems to also be interested in the efforts.
/brian chee University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Information and Computer Sciences Advanced Network Computing Laboratory (ANCL) 1680 East-West Road, Room 311 Honolulu, HI 96822 Voice: 808-956-5797 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian J.S. Chee, CNE/CNI http://ancl.ics.hawaii.edu On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, LinuxDan wrote: > Eric > I was just approached by a software company to setup a gaming lab. > The company wants to invest In an Opensource gaming lab here in Hawaii due > to restrictions it has on their contract in their state on the mainland. > I am not sure of all the details at this time but I thought it was a joke at > first until I read parts of their contract. > I thought also another mainland company wants to setup a business in some > resort area so that they could come here for "business meetings" and use it > for a tax write-off. But as far as I can tell they somehow want to find out > if they can run a franchise of hardcore computer gaming locations. That > would include Hilo, Maui and Oahu. Another possibility would be to > "superconnect" all three islands. This would be our profit side services > end. But the profit side would be able to make donations to non-profit > organizations involved in the project. > > Dan > Aloha > > I visited the HOSEF web site and did not find any information about a > mailing list; apologies in advance if this list is not the appropriate > venue. > > We had our BILUG meeting last Saturday and discussed the possibility (as > discussed in the group IRC chat the other night) of getting some of your > donated machines for educational LTSP installations over here on the Big > Island. > > The short summary of it is 1) everyone present seemed interested and > enthusiastic about the idea; 2) we identified only some limited space > for storing machines at the present time; 3) it is unclear how much > human resources we have at our disposal; and 4) we only have one > firm LTSP commitment and a couple of additional interested schools at > the present time. > > My feeling is that we should probably try initially for a limited > rollout of about 40-50 machines. We have an adult education center here > in Hilo that definitely will take 20 boxes (it is an old Linux lab that > is in bad shape now with about 6 feeble machines left working, but room > for many more). We have 2-3 other schools that have expressed interest, > but no firm committment. If we can get the other machines into a couple > of other schools, then with the two or three labs it might provide a way > to demo the idea to yet other schools and get them on board. I'd > estimate that we have about 6 people that we can count on as far as > effort; all are quite capable technically in both Linux and harware in > general. Some others might get involved once we demonstrate that we > have something rolling. Starting small will also make sure we don't > bite off more than we can chew. > > We also were agreeable to try out a Gnomemeeting conference with your > group there; the problem will be finding a decent time; during a regular > meeting would be best, from the standpoint of having as many people > around to participate. > > Let us know how you want to proceed. > > Mahalo, > --Eric (BILUG coordinator) > > Eric Jeschke > http://redskiesatnight.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau >