[wellylug] A little project....

[Rob Giltrap - Ubiety Group]

Sorry for the lack of communication.

The 2020 Trust are intending to send a representitive to the next 
WellyLUG meeting on Monday to talk about what they are doing and what 
help they would like.

Rob.

 

Lorraine Offord & Tony Wills wrote:

> 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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