Low Cost / No Cost Computing
Posted by Richard Kuhlenschmidt Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:44:00 GMT
We just returned from a very successful exhibit at the CUE (Computer Using Educators) Conference in Palm Springs where we previewed Famundo for Organizations.
Although there was a lot of cool stuff at the conference, I was most excited to see a whole Open Source Pavilion. It seems that the education community is embracing Open Source as a way to control hardware and software costs.
One very interesting product I found was Live Kiosk Web Everywhere which provides a free downloadable software that turns old computers into fast internet web stations. And I mean really old computers. Seriously, you can take your old P2-400 computers with 128MB of RAM and use them for web browsing in libraries, classrooms, research workstations. This is also great for low income families and schools.
Please check them out and let us know if you have heard of any other solutions like this.
I met you, Guy Naor (can’t remember the third person present) at the CUE conference. Thank you for the information you shared with me. I’ve bought the Ruby of Rails book and like it much. I look forward to being able to share it with my students. Look forward to using Famundo for our school. Bye for now,
Aureliano Nava Jordan High School (LAUSD)