[IIAB] Feedback from Haiti volunteer meeting

[Braddock]

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Hi IIAB folks,
Denny Baumann held a meeting in Virginia with about a dozen volunteers
involved with Haiti work yesterday to show them the Internet-in-a-Box
appliance I loaned him.

They have put together a lot of feedback, both good and bad, about
their experiences with it.  I'll will send some of it along.

Collectively they are probably going to order a bunch to try in Haiti.

I am going to need help coordinating and assembling units, as well as
adding requested features.  Anyone interested in helping put together
and cloning IIAB devices?  It would be a great help to have a second
person trained to do it.

At their meeting they hit the device pretty hard and crashed it a few
times.  13 simultaneous gutenberg searches proved too much for the
128MB Seagate GoFlex.

We are going to need beefier hardware.  I've been looking at some of
the newer Buffalo NAS devices.  I could use help here as well.

Some feedback below.  I'll forward more over.

- -braddock


On 12/07/2013 11:39 AM, Sarah John wrote:
> i simply cannot begin to say how excited i am about IIAB and its 
> potential.  Sure, there were some glitches.  But that is to be 
> expected and does not in any way diminish my excitement over the 
> capabilities IIAB will bring to our schols in chantal.  Theyw ill
> be able to reserve the costly internet minutes for the purpose of 
> communication instead of for downloading repetitive information. In
>  particular, the library is fabulous: even if there are only 70
> books in Creole, that is more than any of the schools currently
> have.  With the addtion of the French texts, the Gutenburg  item
> alone will be revolutionary!
> 
> Thank you so much to your crew for the hard work of setting up and
>  coordinating, and to Sora for traveling here to brainstorm with
> us.
> 
> i can't wait for our boxes!!
> 
> Sarah



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