A Diumenge 12 Maig 2002 10:30 am, Ralph A Castanza va escriure: > As a newer TriLUG member I just wanted to say that the installfest > was great. I got the chance to meet some new people and get insight > into more things > going on in the linux world. I had a thought amongst all the email > and after going to the UNC auction..... Maybe we could target a > specific school, have an > installfest with older equipment that people would be able to donate, > then set up a private linux network for that school. It would create > awareness and allow > students to 'play' without too much worry of breaking anything. We > could even set up a 'server' with DHCP, a couple other supporting > machines, then have a couple > more machines meant for multiple re-installs so students can get > comfortable with the OS(we'd have to decide on a standard of Linux to > make things a little less confusing > of course)....
I guess that y'all kow about Red Hat's initiative in this area: [1] http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2002/press_education2.html So we have Red Hat willing to help schools [1]. We have a LUG[2] (the best lug, with the best people btw) ready to help. We have the expertise of Installfests and the networking of a school last year[3]. We have also the K12-LTSP[4] (Linux Terminal Server Project aimed for schools). We have the experience of Portland's LUG [5] in hwlping schools. We have the bad publicity [6] of a company in the NorthWest that is trying to choke schools trough abusive licenses practices, we have schools ready to consider Microsoft software as a liability instead of an asset[7]. What can we do? How can we help? [2] http://www.trilug.org [3] CPCHS [4] http://k12ltsp.org/ [5] http://www.pdxlinux.org/ [6] http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/all_wire_stories/101386428029222529.xml [7] http://www.seul.org/edu/acpe2002.html > Does anyone know of a local school, university, etc. who would be > interested in receiving such a collection of hardware? Are there any > 'geek' teachers out there who > would maybe want to add some linux instruction into their curriculum? > It is just a thought but with all the extra 'old' hardware out there > it would be a good way to teach, > demonstrate that hardware has more longevity than most people are > lead to believe, and give a good excuse to get together. > > ..just my thoughts. > > Take care, > > Ralph Castanza Just my 2 cents Salut, Sinner -- http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/ Linux User # 89976 Running on Mandrake 8.2 - Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Linux Machine # 38068 _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
