Networking for Nigeria

Yacine Daddi Addoun addounya at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 31 11:47:27 UTC 2006


Hi David,
I think that is a wonderful idea and I am ready to
contribute as much as I can.
Yacine

--- David J Patrick <davidjpatrick at sympatico.ca>
wrote:

> We've been prepping  a package for school
> administrators, as the
> result of a local teachers exchange program. For
> background to the
> story, see
> http://www.linuxcaffe.ca/project/indi/nigeria .
> 
> So we have a nice bunch of gear, interconnecting
> bits, some software
> installed and we're ready to set it up, buff it up
> and ship it out.
> Wanna help ?
> 
> We'll be upgrading edubuntu (to Edgy) on the
> centrino laptop, and
> installing lightweight distros, with thin client
> capability. then
> we'll test the base set-up, add-in tailored extras,
> coming up with a
> maintenance scheme and packaging the whole deal up.
> We'll undoubtedly
> have to obtain a few more bits, to ensure the the
> system is turn-key.
> We'll collect up anything else that might be useful
> there (that is
> obsolete here) and throw in a couple of good books,
> from the
> linuxcaffe reference heap. We'll photograph the
> process and I'll write
> a nice article for Newsforge.
> 
> Let's pick an evening for the first phase (target
> software installs
> all around) and initial testing of LTSP host
> functionality. Should we
> make it a focus of a Toronto liinux meet-up ? or an
> ubuntu-toronto
> evening ? or both ?  Who's in ?
> djp
> 
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