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

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

1. Some in public schools, some in shelters
2. Starter computers for transient children
3. HEARTH apartment house with common room

• Summit II taking place on April 8

Goodwill / 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
• 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 Project Caua (listen to audio presentation here) as a model?