The average age of these children is 8 years. The range of ages is from 5 to 11 years. -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of der.hans Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:04 PM To: PLUG Subject: Re: Local daycare center wants to set up row of educational desktops. Am 20. Mar, 2002 schwätzte Mark Berkwitt so: > The owner of a childcare center in the near west side Phoenix area has > expressed interest in providing a computer experience to his clients' > children. All of these children come from disadvantaged homes where > computers are unlikely. > I'm posting this to send out feelers for suggestions of: > > 1. where to get possible hardware donations perhaps from corporatations > upgrading their pc's. www.strut.org. Looks like that's for .or, but there's a .az branch as well. There are a couple of other orgs, I'll have to search my archives. > 2. what kind of hardware configurations are best (ie. 1 server, clients w/o > hdd's). > 3. recommended software for early teen & preteen. There are several Linux projects aimed at children. Jim was touting a new organization that's meant to be an umbrella for all the others. I forget what it is. How old are the kids in the childcare? This sounds like a good project for AZOTO if the daycare is willing to run Linux/*BSD. ciao, der.hans -- # http://home.pages.de/~lufthans/ http://www..com/ # ... make it clear I support "Free Software" and not "Open Source", # and don't imply I agree that there is such a thing as a # "Linux operating system". - rms ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss