[Systems] [Fwd: Re: One Laptop Per Child]

[Bernie Innocenti]

Good news.

We're still waiting for final approval for rackspace from the RIT
Research Computing, though.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Chris Lockfort <devnull at csh.rit.edu>
To: Nathan Green <chairman at csh.rit.edu>
Cc: ALEXANDER JONES (RIT Student) <acj3840 at rit.edu>, bernie at codewiz.org
Subject: Re: One Laptop Per Child
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:24:07 -0500

Good news! We sysadmins reviewed your proposal, and would love to
offer a dual 2.4GHz Xeon 1u rackmount with two 18GB SCSI hard drives.

The real question is, whether this fits your needs or not, and whether
you have rackspace somewhere to put this in.

Additionally, it is not required, and we will not hold you to it, but
we would at least appreciate a thanks and a link back to csh.rit.edu
on a webpage hosted somewhere for this donation.

--Chris Lockfort, Head SysAdmin
OpComm Executive Board Member
Computer Science House, Rochester Institute of Technology

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Nathan Green <chairman at csh.rit.edu>
wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> CSH does frequently receive donations from companies looking to upgrade and
> throw out old hardware.  We are currently finding purposes for the most
> recent donation.  I am putting you in contact with Chris Lockfort, our
> director of OpComm (or head SysAdmin).  He will be able to assist you
> further if we can help you with these machines.
>
> As far as budget goes, we collect dues from our members to spend on our
> members, the budget does not come from RIT and is intended to better our
> services to our members.  We will most likely be unable to assist in a
> monetary capacity.
>
> Thank you for contacting CSH.  I look forward to finding out what we can do
> to help.
>
> Best,
>
> Nate
>
> --
> Nathan Green
> BS/MS Computer Science, '10
> Chairman, Computer Science House
> Rochester Institute of Technology
> (559) 285-3946
> chairman at csh.rit.edu
>
>
> ALEXANDER JONES (RIT Student) wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>   My name is Alexander Jones and I'm a 3rd year student at RIT. I took a
>> class last quarter called Seminar Development One Laptop Per Child. In it,
>> we learned about that program as well as how to create activities for the
>> students using those laptops. I'm still heavily involved in the community
>> and am always looking for a way to help out. The OS run on the XO (name of
>> the laptop) is called Sugar, and is basically Fedora with a GUI overlay.
>> Sugarlabs is the organization that has worked to develop this operating
>> system. Sugarlabs is starting to run into some business issues because of
>> expansion and lack of grants/funding. One of the problems that has been
>> discussed quite a bit is the purchasing of a new server because their old
>> one is just not powerful enough for the volume of traffic that it has to
>> deal with. Bernie Innocenti has a pretty strong role in getting a new
>> server. I was talking to Bernie and he mentioned that RIT was thinking about
>> letting Sugarlabs into the Research Computing program, but that RIT couldn't
>> give Sugarlabs any machines. I was really frustrated at this because of how
>> much I spend to go here. I figure that there has to be a decent server for
>> donation or some extra money lying around that could be put to a good cause.
>> I began to ask around and was told by several students that the Computer
>> Science House frequently gets machines as donations from companies, as well
>> as a large budget. I was also told that they were 'heavily encouraged to
>> give back to the community'. I'm not sure how much of this is true so I'm
>> sending you this email to ask: Is there anyway you could help out? Bernie's
>> email is bernie at codewiz.org if you're interested in getting more information
>> from him. Please note that I'm just trying to get the right people connected
>> so that everyone can benefit. Regardless, thank you for your time and I hope
>> that you're enjoying the new year.
>>               --Alex Jones

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   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
 \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/