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

[Bernie Innocenti]

[cc += @systems]

Luke, thanks to Alex Jones (Boe081 on #sugar), we have yet another
machine from RIT... the specs seem to be slightly worse than the 3
machines we'd get from the Wikimedia foundation. Whaddayathink?

-------- 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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