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Incoming, Outgoing [2014-09-05]

It’s been a great week here.  Five large boxes of equipment just shipped out today to Cebu for the 2015 Philippines projects.  This included most of the 15 wonderful desktops just granted by Free Geek in Portland (www.freegeek.org) plus a batch of monitors that we received through a connection with Alum Rock United Methodist Church in San Jose.  Next week’s chore will be to box up the servers, monitors, and network switches for the five new 2015 high schools and get them underway to the Philippines.  And of course, the Tanzania trip looms so we’ll be getting things packed up for that soon.

Tomorrow afternoon we have good friends coming over to help us do some full-up system testing.  Today I’ve been working through the text matrix, but having an entire lab of thin clients function rather than just a single one is the real “smoke test” for the system!  We are excited to see how it goes.  The client computers are used laptops generously donated by a Bay Area corporation, and they are perfect for this use – a wonderful example of turning obsolete equipment into opportunity for students in developing countries.

The week of the 15th we’ll be picking up more used computers from the Education and Life Training Center in Ft. Collins, CO.  This was a connection made through Kids on Computers, and we are very excited about restocking our shelves with those machines.  This should take care of the remaining units we needed to support our 2015 Philippines plans, plus give us some freedom to look for other installation opportunities while we are there.  So, more boxes to pack and shipments to coordinate, but we are very pleased that we’ll be able to hit the ground running in January when we get to Cebu.