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Submitted by ramez.hanna on Mon, 03/01/2005 - 11:41.
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i read alaa's blog and i want to go on and do something, so i looked at the suggested projects and i think we can start a workshop on thin clients
a workshop is where we go and start the implementation no one will instruct nor give a session we will do it from scratch and go all the way through learning, implementing and tweaking
i suggest the goal of this workshop is to make a comprehensive howto document about thin clients aiming the regular user (not the techie) and have a working demo in the lab
who wants to join?
things to discuss:
- where will we hold the workshop? (i don\t know about elsakia but it will be a great place)
- as this is a workshop then we need a limited number of people
- what FOSS project will we use (all i know is LTSP ... other???)
- specifications (server power? numbert of clients?)

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we need deeper goals
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Submitted by Alaa on Mon, 03/01/2005 - 13:52.

if you don't already know ramz is talking about this blog entry

a workshop is a good idea but, thin clients are actually sooo easy to setup that if you already know GNU/Linux all that is needed is a session.

for the general public a workshop may be too much at the moment, what is needed is to advocate the idea and present it, to show them how it works and explain its economics.

but a workshop could be useful if we identify a target group that lacks experience with GNU/Linux but would actually benefit directly and use thin clients.

or it could have more comprehensive goals like finding out more details on managing thin clients and maintaining them (not just setting them up).

I'm not sure how to go about that, but it needs thinking, just presenting how to set them up is not enough for a workshop.

BTW you should check the mandrake implementation which is very different from LTSP and was more suitable for my needs.

cheers, Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net "i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"


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