Chesapeake Center Computers

[christopher fletez-brant]

Good Morning MD LoCos,
I thought I'd give a little bit of an update about how the linux
implementation is going at the Chesapeake Center.  Out of a total 6 with
Kubuntu made ready by John Hofstetter (big thanks!) we have 3 set up in a
classroom, where currently students are learning to type and write and get
familiar with a computer (remember, many of these students don't have one at
home).  One even figured out how to create a file!  There are 3 more of
John's, and a whopping 5 made available by Ron Swift and my work (again, big
thanks!).  Our plan now is to wait until a room is cleaned out that will be
the school's computer lab; hopefully this room cleanup will be done by this
weekend and then we can set up the remaining computers.  The other thing we
are hoping to get set up this weekend is Dansguardian on all of the
machines.  John installed it on the computers for me, but neither he nor I
know how to use it.  I found a guide that I am going to follow (
http://www.slack-tux.org/howto/setup-content-filtering-with-dansguardian/)
but I would love for the community to review it and make suggestions if
someone knows a better or easier way.  There will be more to come in the
next few weeks; one request I've had from the teachers is that maybe someone
from the community could come in and give a talk to the students about how
computers work and what linux and windows are.  If anyone has a talk
prepared or interest in giving one, please respond to this email and we'll
hammer out the details (if you have interest, but no talk as yet, don't
worry, we probably have 2 -3 weeks before this would happen).

Thank you all very much for all your help so far, and when we are fully
operational, I'll give a full report (with pictures!) at one of the
meetings.  You are all heroes!

Kipper Fletez-Brant