[ale] Please help me give away PCs.

[Ray Knight - Clientlink]

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> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Jeff
> Duffy
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 4:26 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Please help me give away PCs.
>
>
> Well,
>
>  I've contacted Jon and let him know that we have a home for at least
> some of the PCs for the Lassiter project. Our supplier baked out at the
> last minute because of an overzealous legal department (who was worried
> that they would be sued for not disposing of the monitors as hazmat), so
> this is a godsend for the project.
>
>  We have been contacted by BSDi and Red Hat, both of whom are going to
> donate software and books. I agree that just throwing computers in a
> classroom without any sort of plan is a recipe for failure, but we are
> steadily moving toward the goal of rewriting some useful training tools
> in mod_perl, and at the very least can provide the students with access
> to a wider range of research material via websites we have already
> selected for the purpose.
>
>  I suppose a few people are skeptical about what possible good a bunch
> of old 486s can do in a classroom, but I think that we've been pretty
> careful about engineering the plan to account for *exceptionally* thin
> clients, and kept in mind that a computer in a classroom shouldn't just
> be a tool to get kids out of the instructor's hair, but provide some
> real value in terms of learning.
>
>  I'm interested to hear in past failures, too; any mistake I can avoid
> is worth the time.
>
>  Jeff Duffy
>  jeff at wegrow.org
>  http://www.wegrow.org
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Well, I guess I should read all mail before replying.  I'm glad you caught
this message Jeff.  I'm still interested in helping with your effort, just
been extremly busy of late.

Ray Knight
audilvr at speakeasy.org

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