Nigerian network hack night: Thursday @ linuxcaffe

[David J Patrick]

As some of you may recall, linuxcaffe has been talking (and talking
and talking) about building a network of laptops (turn-key ltsp +
supporting infrastructure + squid proxy (for sporadic net access)
tailored for educational use) we have a collection of hardware, and
students have been saving nickel for a year towards hardware.
link to story on our being-renovated-and-almost-totally-unnavigable website
http://linuxcaffe.ca/project/indi/nigeria

So we knew the deadline was approaching, and it has sprung upon us in
the form of this years exchange teachers flight to Nigeria, from
Ottawa, on the 4th or 5th of July, that's like a week from now, and
includes a glorious long weekend.

so

considering the long weekend, during some of which we will be CLOSED
(that's right, in a lake, on a dock, or a hammock) our window of
opportunity is tomorrow evening !
We're going to assemble hardware, including purchase of required
connecting bits, and go nuts installing and configuring for a group of
teachers in a technically and politically hostile area, who may be
running 386s with Win311. It should be an interesting evening, and
volunteered stuff and savvy will be most welcome. Untill then, we've
got, like 24hrs to bat around ideas, on the list.

thank you,
David J Patrick


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