[Tfug] Education for Linux - Small client machines

[Bob Saltzer]

One can cram all edu programs into any distro. 
Thing is to pick one distro and know it well, so one can support it easily.  
Support is king.
Bob AtkinsonTucson
tucsonlinux.com




    On Monday, March 6, 2017 8:17 PM, Keith Smith <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
 

 
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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