[wellylug] A little project....

[Lindsay Hunter]

I am still interested in launching an attempt to actually install some Linux
desktops into the real world.  If we cannot, then that would be good to know
as well.

Perhaps we could agree to meet for an hour at a convenient location and plan
what we would need to do to achive the aim which is not ambitious.

Lindsay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lorraine Offord & Tony Wills [mailto:ajwills at paradise.net.nz]
> Sent: Thursday, 01 August, 2002 18:38
> To: wellylug at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [wellylug] A little project....
>
>
> 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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