Re: [ilugd] Need advice on setup of computers for a rural school

2012-10-05 Thread Gora Mohanty
On 5 October 2012 23:27, Vijay Kakkar vijaykakk...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I am also in favour of setting up Raspberry Pi when we have budget concerns.I have got one with me,it is working fine for basic jobs. Thank you, and Satyakaam, for your inputs. I would very much like to understand

Re: [ilugd] Need advice on setup of computers for a rural school

2012-10-05 Thread Gora Mohanty
On 5 October 2012 10:39, VIGNESH PRABHU stove311...@gmail.com wrote: [...] With respect to Infrastructure, at FSMK's community centre in Bangalore, we are using LTSP setup with 4 old P3 system with 128-256 MB RAM and one new CPU with i3 processor, 4 GB RAM. This CPU cost us Rs. 14,000 along

Re: [ilugd] Need advice on setup of computers for a rural school

2012-10-05 Thread Gora Mohanty
On 5 October 2012 09:11, Saurabh Jain saurabh.j...@gmail.com wrote: Shameless plug, but Thinvent has built solar computers just for this purpose. Google for thinvent solar. I can also get a low cost ferrocement structure done if space and security are issues. Thanks, Saurabh. Solar-powered

Re: [ilugd] Need advice on setup of computers for a rural school

2012-10-05 Thread satyaakam goswami
I am also in favour of setting up Raspberry Pi when we have budget concerns.I have got one with me,it is working fine for basic jobs. @vijaya can you bring it to the next meetup so that you can demo and Gora can take a look it . Thank you, and Satyakaam, for your inputs. I would very much

Re: [ilugd] Some Trainings/Support In Open OS/Softwares

2012-10-05 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 10/05/2012 07:49 AM, Gora Mohanty wrote: On 5 October 2012 06:20, Balwinder S Dheeman bdhee...@gmail.com mailto:bdhee...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/05/2012 01:20 AM, sanjay gupta wrote: I will go to any extent to acheive my goals. There is no problem in coming to Delhi for these

Re: [ilugd] Some Trainings/Support In Open OS/Softwares

2012-10-05 Thread Gora Mohanty
On 6 October 2012 06:09, Balwinder S Dheeman bdhee...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I reside at Chandigarh and work from home as a freelance consultant; visiting New Delhi (NCR), Amritsar and rest of the major cities of Punjab and Haryana, parts of Himachal, Utrakhand and even Jammu is possible.

Re: [ilugd] Some Trainings/Support In Open OS/Softwares

2012-10-05 Thread satyaakam goswami
OK, then maybe it is best if you try to work something out with Sanjay. Please keep us informed, and maybe there are others that can help out. I will be in Ludhiana speaking coming on 11-12th for this event

Re: [ilugd] Some Trainings/Support In Open OS/Softwares

2012-10-05 Thread Gora Mohanty
On 6 October 2012 10:22, satyaakam goswami satyaa...@gmail.com wrote: How about charging a reasonable registration fee from the attendees to cover up the expenses or get these events sponsored by local associations? We, as in ILUG-Delhi, have not charged for attendance in the past,