{"id":24,"date":"2008-03-14T14:51:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T18:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meetlinux.com\/2008\/03\/14\/ntr-laptop-project-update\/"},"modified":"2008-07-11T22:53:40","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T22:53:40","slug":"ntr-laptop-project-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"NTR Laptop Project Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/PennsylvaniaTeam\/CommunityOutreachTeam\/NtrLaptopProject\">NTR Laptop Project<\/a> has been going on for several months now. Here&#8217;s an update from the project lead, Kevin Valentine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The NTR Laptop Project has been moving along smoothly.  I don&#8217;t have any hard numbers right now but we&#8217;ve sorted through about 30-40 laptops. Out of those we have about 10 that are almost ready to be sold at NTR&#8217;s thrift store.  Before we do that they need to be stress tested &#8211; yet another stage in our refurb process.  Last Saturday meeting was the first time we tested our new testing process.  It went something like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>several volunteers were in another room powering up laptops and checking for minimal functionality<\/li>\n<li>another group in the laptop room pulls hard drives and searches for power supplies<\/li>\n<li>one person writes DSL images to the hard drives using our fancy new Python script (takes about 1 minute per drive)<\/li>\n<li>as the first group produces laptops that are function, the new imaged drives get placed in them and tested further<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Initially the desktops were off limits to us.  However, at the last meeting we were approached by one of NTRs employees, Chuck.  He showed me and Jim a batch of about  20 desktops that we could install some flavor of Ubuntu onto.  We don&#8217;t know all the specs yet but we think they range from 500 MHz to 1GHz.  We&#8217;ll find out soon.<\/p>\n<p>For those you haven&#8217;t been following along, please check out the project&#8217;s wiki page for more details: <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/PennsylvaniaTeam\/CommunityOutreachTeam\/NtrLaptopProject\">https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/PennsylvaniaTeam\/CommunityOutreachTeam\/NtrLaptopProject<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our NTR Laptop Project has been going on for several months now. Here&#8217;s an update from the project lead, Kevin Valentine: The NTR Laptop Project has been moving along smoothly. I don&#8217;t have any hard numbers right now but we&#8217;ve sorted through about 30-40 laptops. Out of those we have about 10 that are almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntupennsylvania.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}