2 x laptops, 1 x HP microserver, 3 x routers, 1 x Raspberry Pi given to a charity to go to Kenya to help provide Internet and other services for an NGO. The house has the fewest working desktop computers it's ever had - but it is for a good cause.
Somehow, I suspect that £50 / $100 Android tablets that are starting to be common won't be quite as useful in a couple of years as this lot may be today. For those of us that have good access to technology, fast connectivity as a given and computers to give away - maybe it's time to share the benefits of prosperity with others. If nothing else, it is sharing Debian and Raspbian since I made sure that they were all working well with Debian 7 and Raspbian operating systems respectively before they went. The routers were also running OpenWRT - so it's all FLOSS :)
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What's the NGO?
ReplyDeleteColleagues are going to help a church diocese in Kenya. This is the second or third time some of them have gone - using donated computers, routers and their own networking expertise to bring Internet to a large rural area.
ReplyDeleteI sent a couple of bits and pieces a couple of years ago - including an NSLU2, a Sheevaplug and a home built machine - but the HP Microserver is proving to be ideal as a mainstay machine for their use. Small, low power and can hold four disks
Diocese of Kericho, apparently. Narok district close to Masai Mara is where the latest bunch were based.
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