[sudoroom] HOWTO make a school computer lab for free with "broken" computers and free/open source software

[Patrik D'haeseleer]

Hilary also mentioned OTX-West, who have a somewhat similar program in West
Oakland:

http://www.otxwest.org/index.html

Like ACCRC, they use volunteers to help recycle and refurbish old
computers. They seem to be focused more on Windows XP + OpenOffice though.
Not sure how they feel about Linux.

Patrik

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Steve Berl <steveberl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you guys familiar with Alameda Community Computer Resource Center (
> http://www.accrc.org/)
>
> -steve
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Hilary Naylor <hnaylor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Marina and all,
>> This is indeed a great solution for schools with limited resources. The
>> challenge is that Oakland District tech services will not support a
>> non-windows set-up. Also that a lot of educational software will not run on
>> LINUX.
>>   Many Oakland schools get their refurbished computer labs and classroom
>> computers from OTX-west. They pre-install a while lot of FOSS suitable for
>> the grade level of the school. They also have a take-home computer program.
>> Cheers,
>> Hilary
>> On Aug 15, 2012 5:47 PM, "Marina Kukso" <marina.kukso at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sudo lecture series! ;)
>>>
>>> Do folks know this person?
>>>
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