End of an era [2019-03-04]
Thirteen years ago this month, we got on a plane bound for the Philippines as prospective United States Peace Corps Volunteers. Following training, we moved to the small town of Compostela on the island of Cebu where we were assigned to support Compostela National High School. We found teachers and students there eager for more computers, so our work quickly focused on development of a distributed computer system on campus. By the time our Peace Corps service ended in 2008, we had installed over 100 computers on campus. Each year since then we’ve continued to come back to Compostela to make updates and repairs. However this last week we made a major change to that original architecture to simplify it for easier maintenance.