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Would my village be any good - Sticklepath / West Devon ? We have a village hall and they may well be interested. Viv On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 18:37 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > Henry Bremridge wrote: > >> I think this might have been vaguely mentioned before but... could we > >> possibly sponsor a couple of village halls? > >> > >> What I'm thinking is maybe provide one or two (or maybe more) low spec > >> PCs (Pentium 3/Athlon etc) and a broadband connection. If it was a > >> regular venue then using a low cost ISP for a simple 2 Meg connection > >> (say Tiscalli off the top of my head who is £12.99 a month) then the > >> regulars to the venue could chip in say a couple of quid a month towards > >> the connection and make it available to other people in the village > >> halls (say Scouts, Girl Guides etc). > >> > >> I would certainly be happy to chip in for something like this in either > >> Torquay or Exeter areas if we could get a regular venue for free say > >> once a week or once a fortnight. > >> > >> > > Have approached a parish councillor in Broadhempston (half way between > > Totnes and Newton Abbot), who has advised that potentially it sounds > > interesting. > > > > Should I take it further? > > > Might be a good idea. We could at least get costs of what it would cost > for a connection & equipment. Maybe we could make it into a project for > the LUG, try and get a couple of permanent meeting areas around Devon & > Cornwall so we can all at least get to one. The one between Newton > Abbot & Totnes sounds good as it isn't too far for visitors from Torbay > (or at least I'm assuming not). > > If this went well too maybe we could approach a couple of local > businesses to sponsor the connection in return for a link to the > companies site or something on a web site? > > I'm sure the startup costs wouldn't cost too much. Most ISP's now give > free activation and sometimes even free hardware. Other than that a > wireless router doesn't cost the earth (or alternatively a pair of Linux > boxes acting as firewall/proxy server etc). > > I think I could get some PC's for the task. At work we're looking to > get rid of a load of old PCs (some Pentium 3s, some Pentium 2s) and some > CRT monitors. The company is having to pay for disposal. I'd be happy > to save the company some money and get a few of the old machines. > > Rob > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html