[wellylug] A little project....

[Lorraine Offord & Tony Wills]

What's the status of this little project, anyone taking up Lindsays offer?

--- Tony

At 15:46 15-07-02 +1200, Rob wrote:
...
>I have been speaking with the '2020 Communications Trust'. They have 
>been given 400 PCs (mostly Pentium with 64MB memory) from the Wgtn City 
>Council to distribute to charitable organisations within Wellington.
>
>A problem they have is that this PCs often come without the MS licences 
>and to pay for them is not an option. The would prefer to investigate 
>putting open source software onto these machines so that they are usable 
>by the non-profit orgs and then they don't have to worry about being 
>audited.
>
>I have suggested that this could be a project for the WellyLUG members 
>to come up with a solution. Due to the age/power of the machines loading 
>RH7.3 and cranking up Gnome/Nautilus is not going to be viable. There is 
>also the question of ongoing support and training which will need to 
>have answers.
>
>If we are interested in taking on this challenge the 2020 
>representitives will come to the next WellyLUG meeting.
...


At 21:19 20-07-02 +1200, Lindsay wrote:
...
>Perhaps we could meet and see if we know enough to proceed.  We need pilot
>an install in a similar spec PC.  Sat 3 August at Rongotai.  0900.  Lets see
>what we can do?  We don't need to move until we have confidence in both
>Linux and ourselves.
...




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