[Ubuntu-SG] FOSS educational project seeking participants

[C David Rigby]

Good day TUSG members,

During OSSPAC 16 - 18 Feb 2009, I had the pleasure of meeting
Mr. Steven Shiau. Steven Shiau is a researcher and the manager of the
Grid Technology Division at the National Centre for High-Performance
Computing in Taiwan. He is also project leader for the Clonezilla
(http://clonezilla.org/) and DRBL (http://drbl.sourceforge.net/)
projects.

Mr. Steven Shiau is now seeking collaborators and participants
for a new project aimed at bridging the digital divide using free and
open source software (FOSS). (See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide for more information.) His
goal is to leverage Clonezilla and DRBL to help educators create a
computer environment running FOSS on an existing installed base of
networked PCs. By utilizing a server running the Clonezilla and DRBL
software, educators can provide a computer lab with the ability to run
the latest GNU/Linux distributions and other FOSS software without
disturbing the software installed on the hard disks of the client PCs.
In this way, schools and other institutions can get maximum value from
their existing hardware and avoid the costly upgrade cycle imposed by
proprietary software.

Anyone interested in helping with this project should contact Steven
Shiau directly at steven _at_ nchc org tw.

Kindest regards,
C David Rigby