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Re: [LUG] Permanent Meting Places

 

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
> 
> 


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