Re(1): Italian LUG turns Pakistani school into a educational model
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 194.66.190.3]
on September 25, 2008 11:40 AM
I'm a little confused by this response too, Marco. Maybe the word elite was taken out of context? Your article refers to English quality being affordable by Pakistani elite. We never see the Japanese argue when they have been complemented on the quality of their electrical goods or cars, for instance (or Italians for style and high performance cars etc.). Being from the UK, I believe we should take this as a compliment.
As for this project, I was involved in a similar one last year with a local church. We shipped 60 computers to some orphanages in the Ukraine. I installed Edubuntu 6.06 LTS on the majority after the hardware was tested/fixed. We were lucky because we had a few batches of similar PCs donated by local schools. Once I'd wiped them with Darik's Boot n Nuke, I was able to load Edubuntu on a few of them, download updates and Ukraine language packs and then image them using Mondo/Mindi to transfer to the others. This last step speeded the process up considerably.
I haven't yet recieved feedback about how these machines were recieved (they were due to be delivered last month) but advice to the Padre:
Try to get donations from schools, government departments or companies. As long as you can verify the datawiping they may even pay you to take them away. The bigger benefit though is from recieving several computers with the same spec. which helps with the installs - imaging one install (once set up and configured) and copying to others.
We found we had more CRT monitors than we knew what to do with. I was hoping we could use older hardware as thin clients because we had a server donated but I couldn't get my head round setting them up and I was pushed for time. Anyway, it's great to hear about these projects being a success.
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Re(1): Italian LUG turns Pakistani school into a educational model
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 194.66.190.3] on September 25, 2008 11:40 AMAs for this project, I was involved in a similar one last year with a local church. We shipped 60 computers to some orphanages in the Ukraine. I installed Edubuntu 6.06 LTS on the majority after the hardware was tested/fixed. We were lucky because we had a few batches of similar PCs donated by local schools. Once I'd wiped them with Darik's Boot n Nuke, I was able to load Edubuntu on a few of them, download updates and Ukraine language packs and then image them using Mondo/Mindi to transfer to the others. This last step speeded the process up considerably.
I haven't yet recieved feedback about how these machines were recieved (they were due to be delivered last month) but advice to the Padre:
Try to get donations from schools, government departments or companies. As long as you can verify the datawiping they may even pay you to take them away. The bigger benefit though is from recieving several computers with the same spec. which helps with the installs - imaging one install (once set up and configured) and copying to others.
We found we had more CRT monitors than we knew what to do with. I was hoping we could use older hardware as thin clients because we had a server donated but I couldn't get my head round setting them up and I was pushed for time. Anyway, it's great to hear about these projects being a success.
Rob
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