1. Where would we get the used PCs? <br>Was thinking local companys might do it for good PR or places like Craigslist.<br>2. What kind of scale are we looking at 10 machines a month, 100 a month?<br>3. Where would we work out of?
<br>4. What would be the most cost effective method to allow these machines access to the internet.<br>5. Where would we look to distribute them? <br><br><br><br><br><br><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">On 10/22/06,
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<br><br> 1. Re: Automatix update (Michael Mol)<br> 2. Re: Automatix update (Bill Creswell)<br> 3. Re: Possibilty of creating a nonprofit orgination (Bill Creswell)<br> 4. Re: Possibilty of creating a nonprofit orgination (eah)
<br> 5. Re: Possibilty of creating a nonprofit orgination<br> (Luke McReynolds)<br> 6. Re: Possibilty of creating a nonprofit orgination (eah)<br> 7. Re: Possibilty of creating a nonprofit orgination (Tim Schmidt)
<br> 8. Re: Possibilty of creating a nonprofit orgination (Bob Kline)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:16:13 -0400<br>From: "Michael Mol" <
<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Automatix update<br>To: <a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</a><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:f5e00c450610201616w27aef090v9f05562992852560@mail.gmail.com">
f5e00c450610201616w27aef090v9f05562992852560@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed<br><br>On 10/20/06, Topher <<a href="mailto:topher@wcsg.org">topher@wcsg.org
</a>> wrote:<br>> > It uses dpkg and apt for package management, so it would be like<br>> > installing Firefox manually, and then installing the Firefox package.<br>> ><br>> > As long as your manual installation put the binaries in /usr/local/*,
<br>> > there should be no worries. You can even choose which binaries to use<br>> > by modifitying your $PATH, or by writing out the full path to the opera<br>> > binary.<br>><br>> This is stuff I installed with apt. I put the opera source in my sources
<br>> file and just did<br>> apt-get install opera<br><br>Ah. In that case, yeah, it'll cause issues. You can either not<br>bother with the Opera package in Automatix, or you can remove your<br>current package before installing the Opera package. Either way
<br>should be fine; your personal settings are of course stored in your<br>home directory.<br><br><br>--<br>:wq<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:41:31 -0400<br>From: "Bill Creswell" <
<a href="mailto:billcreswell@gmail.com">billcreswell@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Automatix update<br>To: <a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</a><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:52b088230610210441x791b95a8g7dd5f0f86184e07b@mail.gmail.com">
52b088230610210441x791b95a8g7dd5f0f86184e07b@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>Warning for Ubuntu users<br>- Automatix2 is for "Edgy" Ubuntu 6.10, to be released October 26.
<br><a href="http://getautomatix.com/wiki/index.php?title=Automatix_Testing">http://getautomatix.com/wiki/index.php?title=Automatix_Testing</a><br><br>On 10/20/06, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> Ubuntu users might want to upgrade to Automatix2...it's significantly<br>> updated from the old Automatix.<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.getautomatix.com/">http://www.getautomatix.com/
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<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:43:38 -0400<br>From: "Bill Creswell" <<a href="mailto:billcreswell@gmail.com">billcreswell@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Possibilty of creating a nonprofit orgination
<br>To: <a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</a><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:52b088230610210443p7728a256t2741deaf9c7c0230@mail.gmail.com">52b088230610210443p7728a256t2741deaf9c7c0230@mail.gmail.com
</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>If someone was clever enought to setup free juno dial-up accounts on<br>linux......<br>Kids could still use pc's for educational purposes, but there again, the
<br>cost is another $40 for a printer.<br><br>On 10/20/06, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> Isn't the bigger cost Internet access?<br>><br>> I bought a $50 junker at VC Tech Source.
<br>> 1GHz processor. 512MB of RAM. Plenty<br>> good for surfing and e-mail. So the cost<br>> of a machine is not too much of an issue.<br>><br>> -Bob<br>><br>><br>> On 10/20/06, Jared Upton <
<a href="mailto:jared77@gmail.com">jared77@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > I was thinking of the possibilty of creating a non profit<br>> organization to<br>> > collect and redistribute used PCs to the less forunate school childen,
<br>> > familys, etc. To avoid costs we could install Eubuntu on all the<br>> machines.<br>> > This would also address the nasty spyware problems. I have been<br>> conisdering<br>> > this awhile and then came across this article today on
<a href="http://digg.com">digg.com</a><br>> > <a href="http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=280193">http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=280193</a><br>> > Any comments on the feasibilty of this would be greatly appreciated. I
<br>> am<br>> > also new to the area so something similar may in place that I am not<br>> aware<br>> > of.<br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > grlug mailing list
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<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:19:02 -0400<br>From: eah <<a href="mailto:darth_linux@ameritech.net">darth_linux@ameritech.net</a>><br>Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Possibilty of creating a nonprofit orgination
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<br><br>On Friday 20 October 2006 15:34, Jared Upton wrote:<br>> I was thinking of the possibilty of creating a non profit organization to<br>> collect and redistribute used PCs to the less forunate school childen,
<br>> familys, etc. To avoid costs we could install Eubuntu on all the machines.<br>> This would also address the nasty spyware problems. I have been<br>> conisdering this awhile and then came across this article today on
<a href="http://digg.com">digg.com</a><br>> <a href="http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=280193">http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=280193</a><br>> Any comments on the feasibilty of this would be greatly appreciated. I am
<br>> also new to the area so something similar may in place that I am not aware<br>> of.<br><br>GRLUG used to be a non-profit. We never sold anything, but we did have<br>non-profit status.<br><br>eah<br><br><br>------------------------------
<br><br>Message: 5<br>Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:30:52 -0400<br>From: "Luke McReynolds" <<a href="mailto:luke@davidlagrand.com">luke@davidlagrand.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Possibilty of creating a nonprofit orgination
<br>To: <a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</a><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:34da35260610210730s5e943e90kbb251bb070021f58@mail.gmail.com">34da35260610210730s5e943e90kbb251bb070021f58@mail.gmail.com
</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>GRLUG used to be a non-profit. We never sold anything, but we did have<br>non-profit status.<br><br>Really? What happened?<br><br>On 10/21/06, eah <
<a href="mailto:darth_linux@ameritech.net">darth_linux@ameritech.net</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> On Friday 20 October 2006 15:34, Jared Upton wrote:<br>> > I was thinking of the possibilty of creating a non profit
<br>> organization to<br>> > collect and redistribute used PCs to the less forunate school childen,<br>> > familys, etc. To avoid costs we could install Eubuntu on all the<br>> machines.<br>> > This would also address the nasty spyware problems. I have been
<br>> > conisdering this awhile and then came across this article today on<br>> <a href="http://digg.com">digg.com</a><br>> > <a href="http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=280193">http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=280193
</a><br>> > Any comments on the feasibilty of this would be greatly appreciated. I<br>> am<br>> > also new to the area so something similar may in place that I am not<br>> aware<br>> > of.<br>>
<br>> GRLUG used to be a non-profit. We never sold anything, but we did have<br>> non-profit status.<br>><br>> eah<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> grlug mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">
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darth_linux@ameritech.net</a>><br>Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Possibilty of creating a nonprofit orgination<br>To: <a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</a><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:200610211950.40562.darth_linux@ameritech.net">
200610211950.40562.darth_linux@ameritech.net</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>On Saturday 21 October 2006 10:30, Luke McReynolds wrote:<br>> GRLUG used to be a non-profit. We never sold anything, but we did have
<br>> non-profit status.<br>><br>> Really? What happened?<br>><br>we just didn't renew the paperwork one year. i suppose we could do it again...<br><br><br>eah<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>
Message: 7<br>Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:16:41 -0400<br>From: "Tim Schmidt" <<a href="mailto:timschmidt@gmail.com">timschmidt@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Possibilty of creating a nonprofit orgination
<br>To: <a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</a><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:2c97fe9d0610220616v6863e3d2g92d065d87f95d313@mail.gmail.com">2c97fe9d0610220616v6863e3d2g92d065d87f95d313@mail.gmail.com
</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed<br><br>I in fact own <a href="http://geekcycle.org">geekcycle.org</a>, but haven't had enough time recently to<br>do anything with it. I'll certainly loan some web space / bandwidth,
<br>the domain, and whatever time I can muster...<br><br>--tim<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 8<br>Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:08:26 -0400<br>From: "Bob Kline" <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">
bob.kline@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Possibilty of creating a nonprofit orgination<br>To: <a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</a><br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:d181b7d70610221108h61b86660vcd427e06a957e92d@mail.gmail.com">
d181b7d70610221108h61b86660vcd427e06a957e92d@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed<br><br>I don't know anything about the nonprofit issue,<br>but nursing homes are another candidate for
<br>Internet access. e-mail is particularly beneficial<br>for those basically locked up, giving people some<br>contact with their families if they have any. Low<br>lever surfing is probably a helpful diversion too.<br>
<br> -Bob<br><br><br>On 10/20/06, Jared Upton <<a href="mailto:jared77@gmail.com">jared77@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I was thinking of the possibilty of creating a non profit organization to<br>> collect and redistribute used PCs to the less forunate school childen,
<br>> familys, etc. To avoid costs we could install Eubuntu on all the machines.<br>> This would also address the nasty spyware problems. I have been conisdering<br>> this awhile and then came across this article today on
<a href="http://digg.com">digg.com</a><br>> <a href="http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=280193">http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=280193</a><br>> Any comments on the feasibilty of this would be greatly appreciated. I am
<br>> also new to the area so something similar may in place that I am not aware<br>> of.<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> grlug mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">
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