We have just about finished our work at Grace House women’s shelter to help them get up and running with their computer lab, running WattOS R6 (LTS, based on Ubuntu 12.04) and using refurbished school computers. WattOS uses only 80-90mb of RAM on startup, so is an ideal OS for the aging computers. It is … Continue reading
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Woodburn Computer Lab
Dick went out with Amador to the Woodburn Computer Lab a few weeks back to do an assessment. Dick’s Notes Proyecto de Educacion Arte y Cultura Latina 1274 5th St Suite 1E Woodburn OR 97071 Computer Lab Survey Computers: 10 Student computers, 1 Instructor Station Gateway MATXHRN MDW E4100: 512 Megabytes of RAM, 40 Gigbyte … Continue reading
Digital Dementia Surging Among Young Electronics Users
I just sent this out to my volunteers at work. It has some pretty stark implications not only for younger and older generations and when, how and why they use technology, but also how younger and older generations relate to one-another. Caiti and I are reading Brave New World again (on an iFad, ironically enough)…In … Continue reading
Testimonial: Morningside Methodist Lab
A note from the Community Connections program of Morningside Methodist Church regarding their newly-created computer lab: Ethan, One behalf of the Morningside community I wanted to thank you for help us realize our dreams of having an open source computer lab. Everything is working perfectly and we have already put it to some use! On … Continue reading
GSTEP Board of Director Meeting Minutes May 29,2013
Greater Salem Technology Equity Project Agenda Ike Box May 29, 2013 5:30 – 7:30 Attendees: Kevin Bothwell, Ethan Young and Kelley Kirsch Meeting Minutes Board members voted on reviewing meeting minutes as an agenda topic. Board would review minutes and determine if changes were necessary and agree on if meeting minutes were accepted. Name Transition … Continue reading
Morningside Methodist Computer Lab
We are finished with the Morningside Methodist Computer Lab project! Just in time, we received requests for two more local computer lab projects. There is definitely a large demand for just the few services we provide already (technology grants and computer lab installations), let alone the services we will provide when we are fully operational: … Continue reading
05-01-13 Board Notes
Greater Salem Technology Equity Project Agenda Ike Box May 1, 2013 5:30 – 7:00 Attendees: Kevin Bothwell, Ethan Young and Kelley Kirsch David Duncan, recently submitted resignation due to work and family. Tabled Topic Question was asked if GSTEP currently needs an Advisory Board. After much discussion, the board members thought to establish … Continue reading
A little help for a big difference
Another testimonial from someone who received a keyboard: Thank you so much for the keyboard. It’s really helped us out a lot. 75% of the keys on our old one were rubbed off, and my kindergartner had a hard time using the computer without help, not knowing the keyboard by touch. Thank you again! Sometimes small … Continue reading
04-10-13 Board Notes
Greater Salem Technology Equity Project Agenda Ike Box April 10, 2013 5:30 – 7:00 Attendees: Kevin Bothwell, David Duncan, Ethan Young and Kelley Kirsch Strategic Plan Board members were asked to review the Strategic Plan. Proposed changes were made as Ethan Documented the changes. The Process section will represent a rough idea of … Continue reading
Why GSTEP?
GSTEP is essential to a local “GreenIT Strategy” for the mid-Willamette Valley. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_computing#Product_longevity it’s best to use what we’ve got as long as possible, one way or another: Product longevity Gartner maintains that the PC manufacturing process accounts for 70% of the natural resources used in the life cycle of a PC.[16] More recently, Fujitsu released a … Continue reading
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