[IIAB] Feedback from Haiti volunteer meeting

[Braddock]

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The Virginia Haiti brigade started a Google Doc with notes on their
experience with the IIAB device at their meeting.  We discussed this
in a conference call this morning with them and some of the Unleash
Kids folks.

Sending it along to give you guys some things to think about.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KcWZTYRFHeuHzaSrIg0wFNJIG2iMP88BopH7OODP0Ck/edit

- -braddock


On 12/07/2013 03:05 PM, Braddock wrote:
> 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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