donated computers lab setup

[Guillermo Garron]

On 12/31/06, Norm <maillist at sios.ca> wrote:
> Guillermo Garron wrote:
> >> Ric
> >> Years ago Mac almost became the OS of choice after they started giving
> >> few equipment to schools.  Most people will prefer to stay with the OS
> >> the first learn on.  The Linux community is no where near as cohesive as
> >> a single company like Apple or Microsoft can be.  This does not mean we
> >> can not take a page out of the marketing manual of the others,  As a
> >> community we need to find projects that will bring new users into the
> >> community.  How, each of us have specific ares of interest related to IT
> >> and and the world at large(in my other world I swing into an
> >> environmentalist mode),  If as a New Years resolution we can each
> >> resolve to bring one more person into the Linux community, by finding
> >> ways to support projects like th One-Laptop-Per-Child we can make a
> >> difference.  Support can take many forms from expanding the number of
> >> application they will need, of course money, providing recycled
> >> computers to those that miss out on the one laptop program, but probably
> >> the biggest area is in finding ways to supply individual support to
> >> encourage the child to stay with the program.  Is there an online help
> >> or mail list focused towards the program that will be available?  The
> >> challenge of setting up a useful multi-language help desk is big.   As
> >> community do we have the resources to do this?  If we can keep the new
> >> users on Linux for their first year the odds are they will stay for a
> >> lifetime.
> > You are right, that is specially helpfull in countries like mine
> > (Bolivia) where most of people do not have PCs, and if they have they
> > can't afford to pay Microsoft for using XP, or Vista, or anything.
> > Linux is a great chance to do it, but as you said, they need support
> > to stay on linux, as the most users are on windows.
> > I am starting one week ago a site
> > www.go2linux.org (where i will try to put the few things I know about
> > linux) also created jaws.go2linux.org (Spanish site) and
> > foro.go2linux.org (a spanish forum)
> > that will be my small help to the linux community.
> > Any ideas are welcome, and if some of you have documents or How-Tos to
> > share with me, or I can translate to spanish to publish here, will be
> > great!
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Guillermo.
> >
> Guillermo.
> Good to see that you are doing your part.  I don't have any recycled PC
> available at this time and none "promised".  If I acquire  several
> (enough to make shipping them worth while) are you in a position to
> distribute them?
Sure I can, I can work together with Universities, to make them help
me distribute them.
thanks a lot, and if you can that will be appreciated
> Recently I found a well written howto on SSL certificates at
> http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/ssl-cert-howto.php, He does have a Spanish
> version on line already but it may be a good quick add to your site.
Thank you a lot, I will add both the English and the Spanish versions.

regards,

-- 
Guillermo Garron
"Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are."
(Using FC6, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06)
http://www.go2linux.org