Stuart Parkington wrote: >> My dream is to have a *high profile* charity which is interested >> enough to use ubuntu or have its own rebadged version of ubuntu! > > How about a charity like NCH (National Children's Homes > (http://www.nch.org.uk/) for you "dream" Alan? NCH I would think would > fit the *high profile* category and maybe could provide an ideal set of > users who could use the Ubuntu family products. > > In the first instance, I'm thinking more of the actual kids as users > vice the charity office systems. Edubuntu would appear an obvious choice > for a front-end PC lab/cyber cafe, allowing for educational use, > Inter/Intranet access, etc. With Ubuntu server being used on the back > end to web cacheing/proxy (Squid), Filtering (Dans Guardian) AV > (ClamAV), Intranet (Apache) a great range of Open Source solutions could > be demonstrated. (K)Ubuntu could be employed for adult/supervisor > workstations. The longer term goal to hopefully encourage adoption of > Open Source throughout the greater Charity. > > We could put together a proof of concept of all this with fairly limited > hardware. Possibly using ex-corporate recycled machines donated by a > sponsor?
Good thoughts Stuart Anyone got any contacts with NCH I wonder? -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 Linux user #360648 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
