Many thanks from the Family Help Trust to Roger for the monitor donated
to them.
Cheers,
Adrian
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 19:14 +1200, Adrian Mageanu wrote:
> Thank you again from FHT and myself to Chris and Steve for their
> donations.
>
> As it happened, none of the PCs donated so far have a monitor. So
> following Steve's suggestion, I'm abusing the list again with another
> request, this time for one or two monitors to go along with those PCs.
>
> If you have some spare ones lying around, please let me know.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Adrian
>
>
> On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:41 +1200, chris wrote:
> > Would a p3 do?
> > Chris T
> > On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 13:19 +1200, Adrian Mageanu wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > > I have seen some offers on this list in the past and I thought to fire a
> > > question/request here. It is Linux related, you'll see from the rest of
> > > the message.
> > >
> > > Through a set of circumstances I got involved in helping a volunteer
> > > organisation that does a lot of good work in the community in
> > > the difficult area of child abuse prevention.
> > >
> > > They are growing and need a bit of help with that, hence my message.
> > >
> > > What they need is a PC or a server, given to them as a donation, to be
> > > used as a development environment in a transitional phase.
> > >
> > > The machine will run a LAMP + Reporting configuration, with the Linux
> > > being Ubuntu, and the reporting system most likely to be Jasper.
> > >
> > > The size of the database to be supported I estimate it at between 10GB
> > > and 50GB.
> > > There will be one developer at a time on the system, probably 2 power
> > > users (running analytical reports), and up to 10 regular/light users,
> > > not all of them using the system concurrently. The load shouldn't be too
> > > heavy.
> > > Video/Graphic is not an issue so (evidently) the better the processor,
> > > the bigger the HDD and the RAM the better.
> > > A network card is a must though.
> > >
> > > I believe a system made of the cannibalisation of other two or more will
> > > do, as long as it will still run Ubuntu
> > >
> > > The organisation I'm talking about is Family Help Trust (FHT).
> > >
> > > To show their appreciation to the potential donor(s) they are offering
> > > the following:
> > >
> > > First, FHT will give you a Letter of Acknowledgement for the donation
> > > received.
> > >
> > > Second, they can offer exposure for the donor's logo (with a link to the
> > > donor's website) for a year on their website
> > > http://www.familyhelptrust.org.nz
> > > There is good company to be in on that page, with the likes of Duncan
> > > Cotterill, Contact Energy, Radio Network and others - see their web site
> > > for more info.
> > > Their statistics count over 4000 individual visitors every month - quite
> > > impressive for a non-profit of their size.
> > >
> > > Third, the donor's logo will also be printed on the brochures they hand
> > > over to countless of individuals and organisations every week.
> > > To see samples and how your logo will look on paper, click on any of the
> > > brochures (pdf format) listed here:
> > > http://www.familyhelptrust.org.nz/resourses-referral.html
> > > The logo will be visible on the reverse of the brochure, no un-folding
> > > necessary to be seen.
> > >
> > >
> > > The machine(s) can be donated directly to FHT or I can facilitate some
> > > (or all) of the details, including pick-up and transport.
> > >
> > >
> > > Many thanks in advance for all potential offers.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Adrian
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
