Editing Penguins Care

This page is for collecting together efforts by WPLUG to help deploy Linux systems to local organizations and individuals in need.

== February 7, 2011 meeting notes ==

=== [http://www.homelessfund.org/ Homeless Children's Education Fund] ===
* Ten learning centers, ~3 PCs at each
* One-day census counted 875 homeless children served in Allegheny County, likely more uncounted
* Possible deployments
# Some in public schools, some in shelters
# Starter computers for transient children
# HARTH apartment house with common room
* Summit II taking place on April 8

=== Goodwill / [http://computereach.com/ Computereach] ===
* Keeping old systems out of landfills
* Computereach working with Brother's Brother foundation - deployed 320 Mac G3s to Nicaragua
* Goodwill setting up future facility in Lawrenceville to serve as hub for computer donations - date uncertain

=== Next steps ===
* Establish joint special interest group with WPLUG, Computereach, and others to build and support Linux machines
* [{{SERVER}}/mailman/listinfo/penguins-care Mailing list] set up
* Possibility of setting up dedicated NTP server to count deployed systems?  (Configure machines to use it for time sync.)
* Opportunities for direct deployment?  (So we can build & deploy without having to warehouse machines.)
* Set up systems to serve as network routers / firewalls?
* CRTs in huge supply - figure out where it makes sense to use
* Investigate [http://www.projectcaua.org/ Project Caua] (listen to [http://www.archive.org/details/OhioLinuxfest2010 audio presentation here]) as a model?