http://www.sustainable.ie/cultivate/
I hadn't heard of them before, but the introduction before the talk mentioned their concerns with "sustainability" and made me feel that Free Software might be there kind of thing. In fact, I searched their site and discovered:
- They screened Revolution OS in 2003
- They are offering an "intership" developing their IT stuff:
http://www.sustainable.ie/cultivate/internships.htm
which explicitly uses Free Software tools. I think we should make contact but, before e-mailing them out-of-the-blue, I thought I'd see if anyone on the list is involved with them.
Hi all,
In the past, I've done a bit of volunteer work with environmental groups including Cultivate. It's been a while since I've been with them but they're a good bunch of people and are quite committed to the use of Free Software as part of a sustainable computing solution.
Another volunteer (Meinhard) who has since left the country had previously set up one well-specced PC running Red Hat (RH9 IIRC) and LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) along with a number of low-spec disk-less thin clients that they had obtained from Electronic Recycling. It was very well set up and while I was there, I just helped add a few more thin clients to the network, tweaked their Samba set-up and installed a couple of packages on the server along with a little more end-user tech support. The majority of people working there were using this system aside from one desktop and one laptop running MS Windows.
It's been a while since I've been in there but they used to have a PC so that members of the public could try out a FOSS computing system. I've often thought that there premises would be a good place to distribute Live CDs. I've been meaning to talk to them about it but I don't be in town as much as I used to be and never got around to it.
Regards, Anthony