Re: [seul-edu] How would the kids login in the labs? SCHOOL-AID

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

Karl wrote:

> Ideally, there should be a web-resource where pro-active
> student-linux-lovers can go to register for used hardware, or
> hardware/exchanges.
>
> Some private companies may be considering old-hardware-donations to
> non-profit orgs, but I am suggesting that we, the peeps, need to build
> that resource (for the sake of the *whole* community, and especially for
> the students in schools (who most deserve the high level of intellectual
> nourishment). I think I saw something like that in a linux.com article
> once, and would love to talk with anyone about this who has more
> information on efforts already pioneering this kind of SCHOOL-AID, and I
> would love to talk to anyone who would want to collaborate on organizing
> this, or who could use another energetic helper.
>
> Is anyone doing that already? Helping raise funds/methods for schools to
> get used hardware that can serve as powerful linux servers?
>

Bill Ries-Knight has the Linux Educational Needs Posting Pages
<http://www.linuxhelpers.org/lenpp.html>.  While that isn't exactly what you're
talking about, it's at least part of it.  You can contact Bill at
webmaster@linuxhelpers.org, or at his personal email address (it will be on his posts
in the SEUL/edu email archives).  I think he'll be happy to accept help on this, and
if you have thoughts on how your ideas can be incorporated into his I'm sure he'll
listen avidly.  I think it's best to build on something like this and publicize it
rather than to have too many similar initiatives all trying to exist and none of them
getting large enough to attract the support the concept needs to survive.

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