[K12OSN] Proposal due Monday, feedback welcome
David Trask
dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
Fri Mar 26 16:38:29 UTC 2004
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Linux distribution." <k12osn at redhat.com> writes:
>(The Baht can be converted to US$ by dividing by about
>40)
>In a casual conversation with my new school's
>secretary while we were travelling to a seminar, I
>mentioned setting up the school with computers. I said
>that I could probably do it for about 90k Baht with
>thin clients. Well, I have now been asked to make a
>formal proposal to the school director on Monday, and
>am looking for some feedback.
>
>First, the requirements (or, since the director
>doesn't know anything, what I look at as
>requirements):
>
> * One or more servers to serve the thin clients,
One good server can handle this easily....I have a Dual Xeon with 4 GB RAM
running almost 50 clients
>
> * About thirteen clients, scattered throughout the
>school, though more if I can,
Easily done
>
> * Software to handle document exchange,
>scheduling, etc...
Not sure what you mean by this....Groupware?
>
> * Software to administer the school and track
>students,
OpenAdmin
>
> * Internet access on a dial-up which limited
>numbers of folks can turn on or off,
dial up will be prohibitively slow fo that many clients
>
> * Minimum admin work, able to be done by someone
>as an extra duty (and not, me, though I will have time
>to train).
Once set up....maintenance is minimal and can be done remotely in most
cases
>
>
>I am likely to:
>
> 1. Buy two used Compaqs with dual PIIs and RAID
>4.9GB disks X9 that I saw for 15K each recently
> Total cost 30,000 Baht;
> 2. Bump the RAM on these to over a GB each
> Ttotal cost 6,000 Baht
> 3. Purchase clients off a shipment from Japan ot
>the US, P200s 32 MB RAM, 2MB video, at about 900 Baht
>each
> Total cost 12,000 Baht;
> 4. Monitors from Japan for 1,500 Baht each
> 19,000 Baht;
> 5. Buy an old PII to run Smoothwall or ?ECop? 3,500
>Baht;
> 6. Buy a new 16 port switch with one or two gigabit
>ports and one or two gigabit cards for the servers
>???? Baht;
Amer.com has a 24 port with dual gig uplink for about $199 US
>
> 7. Use the rest to purchase mice and keyboards;
> 8. Use IceWM with limited menus to limit the memory
>consumption per client;
Highly recommended.....IceWm is much better
>
> 9. Use one server for thin client use and the other
>for scheduling software, documents, and mail. Rsync
>the two servers nightly to allow me to turn services
>on in case of failure of one of them.
> 10. Use eGroupware, a fork of PhPGroupware, which I
>have used before.
> 11. Use Webmin to divide the admin tasks among
>several folks.
> 12. Possibly use SchoolMation 1.0, but survive on
>eGroupware alone if I can;
> 13. And try, for the first time in my life, to set
>up an IMAP mail setup for use inside eGroupware.
>
>This is an order of magnitude beyond anything I've
>done before, but I don't suspect that I'll have any
>problems with this setup. Suggestions and/or flames
>are welcome...
>Daniel
David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
(207)923-3100
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