[luau] Re: [BILUG] Friday night IRC meeting, Linux for Hawaii schools

[Eric Jeschke]

This would be a fantastic opportunity and a generous offer from you
guys.  We are watching the goings on there with a great deal of
admiration for the job you are doing for Linux advocacy in Hawaii.

It is also timely news because we have been discussing the possibility
of this for a few meetings now.  This might be what we need to really
get the ball rolling.

An immediate problem is the one that Warren noted: mainly, where the
heck would we store these things while we are fixing them up and putting
together some labs?  Any ideas, BILUG folks?

--Eric

Eric Jeschke
http://cs.uhh.hawaii.edu/~jeschke

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Warren Togami wrote:

| R. Scott Belford wrote:
| > 
| > Jeff Zidek has arranged for 1500, not a mis-type, 1500, Pentium 166 
| > machines from Hickam.  This is likely to be about 30 pallets worth.  The 
| > P166's we have received so far tend to have 3COM 3C905 nics, at least 
| > 16mb of ram, and pci video cards.  Even if 1/3 are junk, we are still 
| > talking about an amazing quantity of hardware.  Regretfully, if I was 
| > able to find the space to store all of these, the few of us volunteering 
| > our time would be overwhelmed.  You can help.  We can use your help.  
| > Perhaps you or your business could help store them.  We have people who 
| > want computers.  We have computers to give them.  We have enough 
| > resources to create the revenue to buy servers for them.  We even have 
| > the hardware to build light but effective Terminal Servers.  We just 
| > need some of your volunteer time to make it all happen.
| > 
| > scott   
| > 
| 
| 1500 is a HUGE number.  Due to the immediate storage problem that this 
| causes, we need to quickly find schools at which to implement LTSP labs.
| 
| Friday, February 7th, 2003
| 8:00pm
| Channel #mplug on the Freenode IRC Network
| http://freenode.net
| irc://irc.freenode.net/mplug
| 
| We should get Big Island Linux Users Group 
| (http://cs.uhh.hawaii.edu/BILUG/) onboard during this meeting in order 
| to discuss the possibility of shipping hundreds of computers to their 
| island for their own LTSP rollouts at schools.
| 
| During this online meeting we should also discuss our public relations 
| efforts in getting Linux in local media (newspaper, magazine, 
| television) as well as ways of funding LTSP servers for schools.
| 
| Warren Togami
| warren at togami.com
| 
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