Forget LiveCDs, let's do Live PCs

[Mark Osborne]

Nathan Parker had a great suggestion. Source some PCs to recycle,
stack them with FOSS software (start with the NZOSS education CD?) set
up a localhost with moodle, mahara, koha, drupal, silverstripe,
mediawiki, wordpress, status.net, etc and give them away to schools.

We could even get fancy and have a few partitions: sugar, ubuntu with
primary school tools, ubuntu with secondary school tools.

Instructions on how to create a usb install disk so kids can take a
copy and spread it. (The good kind of virus.)

The LivePC is born. Can we get one into every local school?

[Tabitha]

www.computerrecycling.co.nz is near our house so we will check out how
likely it is we can get any free computers

Tabs

[Nevyn]

They're normally involved with "e-day" which is held around the same
time as SFD. I think Jaco tried to contact them last year but didn't
have any success. I'm not sure but I think it might be the same
company that was under investigation. There are strict rules around
what's rubbish and what's recyclable and one of those rules is around
monitors - if they aren't working, they're classified as hazardous
waste and so can't be shipped with working monitors. So they had
containers that were being held at the docks during the investigation.
I'm not sure how it was going but long story short, they might not be
as green as their image would suggest.

Regards,
Nevyn.

[Jaco van der Merwe]

Thanks for the info, Tabitha

I'll contact them some time this week & see if you're interrested

Cheers

- Jaco

[Nevyn]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Nevyn <nev...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> They're normally involved with "e-day" which is held around the same
> time as SFD. I think Jaco tried to contact them last year but didn't
> have any success. I'm not sure but I think it might be the same
> company that was under investigation. There are strict rules around
> what's rubbish and what's recyclable and one of those rules is around
> monitors - if they aren't working, they're classified as hazardous
> waste and so can't be shipped with working monitors. So they had
> containers that were being held at the docks during the investigation.
> I'm not sure how it was going but long story short, they might not be
> as green as their image would suggest.
>
> Regards,
> Nevyn.

HI Tabitha,

I hate to nag, but did this go anywhere? Have you had a chance to get
down there and see what they're about and whether they might possibly
see a few donated machines during SFD as something of value to them?

Regards,
Nevyn.