Computer Donations Project

[Nathan Bahn]

C.F.-B.--
Do you need any further donations?
--N.O.B.



On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:38 PM, christopher fletez-brant <
cafletezbrant at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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