The Regional Information Technology Association, a student club at Glendale
Community College, held it's first Social Computing night on Friday, 25
February, 2000.  Perhaps ten students showed up.  Most played games on a
stand-alone LAN, and one student got Redhat loaded onto one of the old x486
machines that we are trying to rehabilitate.  It even ran GNOME and KDE on
0.5Gbytes and 32Mbytes.  Next week we will rehab another machine and start
working on a Linux LAN.

Computer night is only open to GCC students. (It costs $24.00 to get lab
privileges, or if you register for an hour of credit you get lab privileges
included with your $40.00 per credit hour fee.)  However, I'm trying to get
space on Tuesday evenings from about 5:30 to 8:30 for Linux lab time.  If it
pans out then everyone would be welcome.  (Call GCC Student Life if you want
to lobby, express interest, etc.)

The whole thing is a shoe-string operation.

RITA is part of the Maricopa County Community College District, so all
donations are tax deductible.

Our priority right now is a Club file server for Computer Night, and CD-ROMs
for the x486 re-hab project.


WANTED:

--CD-ROM drives, any speed.

-- x486 or better motherboards or CPUs

-- Memory SIMMs: 8Mbytes or more per SIMM (we can't do too much on less than
32Mbytes)

-- Hard drives with more than 0.5Gbytes

-- SCSI boards

-- Money$$

-- Members, Participants, Mentors, and Sponsors




Trent Shipley,
RITA President

Personal:
tshipley@u.arizona.edu
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~tshipley/

RITA (all donations tax deductible):
tcshiple@student.gc.maricopa.edu
http://gecko.gc.maricopa.edu/clubs/rita/

Symbio-Tech Telecom Solutions:
(602) 522-7502
tshipley@symbio-tech.com
http://www.symbio-tech.com