Computer Donations Project

[christopher fletez-brant]

Update:
1) Thank you everyone for all the help!  You are all great!  This kind of
effort is what makes the Linux community a real community.

2) Physical setup:  After a lot of thought, we decided that what would work
best would be for me and my gf to do the set up on site.  This is for a
number of reasons, most of which are scheduled oriented.  To this end I
would like to arrange convenient pick up times for everyone involved.  Since
I know some people need documentation of their donation, please send me an
email with what you need and we will get said paper work in order by the
time of pickup.

Again, everyone, thank you.  This is awesome.  Our goal is to demonstrate,
by means of an in-classroom implementation of Linux, the utility of the
system for the school's computer lab, which needs something of an update.  I
will keep everyone posted on the success of this program once we have set it
up.

Kipper Fletez-Brant


On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Nate <omegamormegil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> I just wanted to update those interested on the Chesapeake Center for Youth
> Development's request for donations.  We currently have 4 Kubuntu 9.04
> machines almost ready to go, which have been donated by the company John
> Hofstetter works for.  John has been working on getting them all running.
> Thanks John!
>
> Details of the donations:
>
> I've got 4 Dell Optliplex 240 towers with fresh installs of Kubuntu 9.04
> > ready to go.  Also to donate are three crt monitors, all in good working
> > order.  One is a huge clunker, about 20-21 inch.  There are two
> > keyboards--one has problems but is useable--and at least three mice as
> well.
> >
> > Of the Dell towers, all have 1.8 GHz processors, use PC133 RAM and have
> CD
> > ROM's.  One currently has only 256meg of RAM but Brian Kemp has more
> PC133
> > to contribute, I've been in touch with him.  The other three have 512meg.
> >  One has a 20 gig HD, two have 40 gig HD and one a 75 gig HD.  In
> addition
> > to the software installed by default, Firefox, VLC media player, Kwrite,
> > Abiword and Synaptic have been installed.  Also the w32codecs, Mplayer.,
> > flash player and Java plugins for Firefox are installed.
> >
> >
> Kipper Fletez-Brant has indicated that the school would be interested in
> all
> four systems.  We will need to get an Internet filter working on each one,
> and I think Dan's Guardian would be our best bet.  John may (or may not)
> need some help getting it set up, so if you are a Dan's Guardian Guru, let
> us know!
>
> Kipper is working on scheduling the physical set-up, and we will probably
> need a couple hands to help with that, too.  I'll let you all know when we
> have more information.
>
> Nate (Omegamormegil)
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