[Tfug] Education for Linux - Small client machines

Keith Smith techlists at phpcoderusa.com
Mon Mar 6 20:16:51 MST 2017


Thank you for the link!  Noble cause to help Mexico create an economy 
and create hope.


On 2017-03-06 18:57, marcia wilbur wrote:
> This one is stormy's .
> 
> http://www.kidsoncomputers.org/
> 
> Oh I had something up here in the East Valley that was called the
> Linux initiative with my lug. We gave away about a dozen computers
> with mint and we started doing more Raspberry Pi stuff. We ended up
> giving away only a 10 Raspberry Pi's but the children that received
> the were extremely grateful. Tomorrow I'm meeting with some Youth
> Foundation in Tempe and I'm going to be doing some pi and other stuff.
> However I also realize there's this competition called cyberpatriot or
> something and I wanted to get those kids started with preparing for
> next year's competition. At scale this year they were having a capture
> the flag on Ubuntu when it would be better I think to use Kali. It's
> just I wanted to know if I could get the kids some cheap docking
> stations because now even the pi docking stations cost more.
> 
>  that being said I worked at the Department of Education and they
> hired me to implement a proprietary software solution because they
> spent 19 million dollars on Moodle with Drupal. I was a side myself.
> 
> On Mar 6, 2017 11:19 AM, "keith smith" <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Do you have a website for your org or the org Stormy Peters is a
>> part of?
>> 
>> ------------------------
>> Keith Smith
>> 
>> On Sunday, March 5, 2017 10:58 PM, marcia wilbur
>> <marcia.k.wilbur at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am not sure who it was but so many years ago, there was a project
>> from a guy in Tucson and I believe a TFUG member.
>> 
>> He was making these client machines for the local schools.
>> 
>> So, like, I would like to connect with him or anyone who knows
>> something about this project.
>> 
>> Stormy Peters is doing an effort in Mexico and other countries to
>> bring some GNU products to schools there.
>> 
>> Even if that school client machine isn't still active, I'd like to
>> talk to anyone who knows anything about thin clients for students.
>> 
>> Thanks!
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