On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:17 +0700, Jean Jordaan wrote: > Hi there > > The tuXlabs project in South Africa has been rolling out thin-client > Linux labs to schools since 2002. They may have experience, materials > and code to share. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttleworth_Foundation#tuXlabs > http://www.inkululeko.co.za/projects > > Unfortunately it seems their main website died .. >
Hello Jean, Thanks for the information. I did a bit of googling. I turned up this page that makes a reference to the Shuttleworth Foundation. However, their link to the foundation site returns a site not found error: http://learnlinux.tsf.org.za/courses/web-tuxlabs.html However, the foundation does seem to be in existence at a .org rather than a .com address: http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/ There, tuxlab is listed as a past project: http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/our-work/past-projects/tuxlab Indeed, the site linked from that page for tuxlab has been cybersquatted but is, as you said, otherwise inactive. Unfortunately, that's where I reached a dead end. Cheers CDR > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:03 PM, C David Rigby <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good day Everyone, > > > > During OSSPAC 16 - 18 Feb 2009, I had the pleasure of meeting > > Mr. Steven Shiau. Steven Shiau is a researcher and the manager of the > > Grid Technology Division at the National Centre for High-Performance > > Computing in Taiwan. He is also project leader for the Clonezilla > > (http://clonezilla.org/) and DRBL (http://drbl.sourceforge.net/) > > projects. > > > > Mr. Steven Shiau is now seeking collaborators and participants > > for a new project aimed at bridging the digital divide using free and > > open source software (FOSS). (See > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide for more information.) His > > goal is to leverage Clonezilla and DRBL to help educators create a > > computer environment running FOSS on an existing installed base of > > networked PCs. By utilizing a server running the Clonezilla and DRBL > > software, educators can provide a computer lab with the ability to run > > the latest GNU/Linux distributions and other FOSS software without > > disturbing the software installed on the hard disks of the client PCs. > > In this way, schools and other institutions can get maximum value from > > their existing hardware and avoid the costly upgrade cycle imposed by > > proprietary software. > > > > Anyone interested in helping with this project should contact Steven > > Shiau directly at steven _at_ nchc org tw. > > > > Kindest regards, > > C David Rigby > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Slugnet mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
