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Burngreave IT Partnership
Aims and Objectives

I've started installing on MKDOC on a Dual Opteron ( AMD64 ) server using Debian Testing ( Sarge)

A 64 bit version is available as an unofficial port of Debian. There is a HOW-TO here The Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 HOW-TO

I've been asked to install Debian Sarge on a server for the Burngreave Messenger.

The machine in question has 2x 80GB Hdd which are to be used as a RAID 1 Disk Mirror.

My Distro of choice is generally SuSE which will deal with installing onto a raid device without any issues, but the specification was to use Debian so....

With the success of Burngreave Community Area Network, we need to start building on it and putting some content in through the pipes..

Next steps ?

1. plug residents who are interested working with Community Organisations directly into the CAN ?

2. get timebank software going ? Use it to coordinate volunteer activity ?

3. find ways of 'can' abling every community group in Burngreave ?

I've compiled and installed the latest version of Sown's Aladin - meshing daemon, on all the live Burngreave Pebbles. It'll need adding to the bcan pebble installer at http://bcan.burngreave.net.

During its lifetime the Burngreave IT Partnership produced a number of reports.

These are available at http://www.burngreave.net/reports. classified by author and date published.

Came across This on a mailing list

The original article crap! But even so ..

The arguments seem to lead up to its final statement
 
> > demonstrate quite clearly that the promotion of open-source software
> > cannot be an economically justifiable role for the state.
 
But there are probably a number of fallacious steps involved.  I guess you

In the quest to produce a simple way of porting documents into more transparent formats I've managed to use wvWare to convert MS word 2000 Docs to html and pdf from shellscripts.

I'll post some examples later. First though

wvHtml filename.doc filename.html

Creates HTML from Word docs .. seems OK, yet to try on complex tables.

wvPS filename.doc filename.ps 

I've stolen the December Messengers web edition as a test to try and
customise a drupal theme with a little more consistency, and style.

Apologies to Jamie for ruining his pixel perfect layout!

Approaching a 1.0 release :-)

Latest draft of the Burngreave Internet Access Report .. Changes are extended Digital Divide Section, Conclusions, and Appendix on the CAN

Abstract

The existing market in Internet conectivity for Bungreave is outlined. Good practice for connecting safely, securely and maintaining a consistent presence on the internet is put forward. Whilst the dotcom boom is over, the growth in network connectivity and business solutions continues, and some future trends and growth areas are defined.