Technology professional looking to donate time with Ubuntu

[Asmo Koskinen]

28.09.2012 15:09, theo.schmidt at wilhelmtux.ch kirjoitti:

> The main problem is the lack of local support, even in South Africa,
> the home of Ubuntu, as the distances are usually too great. The only
> successful projects are those, where staff is permanently available.

I help as an administrator for a project from Finland (I live here), 
project itself is in Mexico City:

http://ltsp.org/stories/viewstory/?story_id=36&secret=465826

Yes, I needed someone to install locally very basic steps (Lubuntu 
desktop i386), then I stepped in and installed ltsp-pnp by Alkis. Now I 
run everything remotely - all I need is autossh (ssh -R, ssh-keygen etc).

I rent cheapest Linode server (Dallas, Texas) for ssh pipes. Every time 
ltsp-pnp-server boots it pipes itself to the Linode server and wait for me.

I think I can manage every server in our project that way. And ltsp-pnp 
do not need any kind of heavy server, just one desktop pc, very same as 
all others in classroom.

Yes, you need few very basic things (electricity, adsl/internet) and one 
person, who can copy-paste from the browser to the terminal. After that 
your server just wait for you to serve you.

But I understand that environment can be very hostile out there for 
computers. There are earthquakes in Mexico City (we faced one), here in 
Finland never.

I started with this howto: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Autossh
Gentoo fellows usually know what they are doing ;-)

Keep on, Theo, you do good work.

Best Regards Asmo Koskinen.