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Application for Funding
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1.6 Tell us about the focus and purpose of your organisation and what you are hoping to achieve
+Application for Funding
+1.6 Tell us about the focus and purpose of your organisation and what you are hoping to achieve
The Waikato Linux Users Group Incorporated (commonly known as WLUG) is an incorporated society designed to advocate and promote the usage of Open Source and Free Software, particularly the Linux operating system.
-Full definitions of Open Source Software and Free Software are attached to this application, however in summary “Free” software is free in both senses of the word; it comes at no cost, and it contains
the liberty to control and modify the software through the availability of the 'source code', the instructions the computer uses to run the program and that any programmer can modify.
+Full definitions of Open Source Software and Free Software are attached to this application, however in summary “Free” software is free in both senses of the word; it comes at no cost, and it grants
the liberty to control and modify the software through the availability of the 'source code', the instructions the computer uses to run the program and that any programmer can modify.
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+Linux is an operating system originally written by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish computer science student, in the early 1990’s. Since that time, with the help of the GNU project and thousands of volunteers around the world, it has evolved to become a full featured system for computers, from high servers, through desktop machines, to embedded devices such as handheld music players,
WLUG is a member of a worldwide network of Linux User Groups, grassroots organisations dedicated to the advancement of software that both adheres to open standards and allows users the freedom to change and improve the software.
-The charter of the Waikato Linux Users Group Incorporated defines the purpose of the WLUG as "
a support community for Open Source and Free Software"
:
+The charter of the Waikato Linux Users Group Incorporated defines the purpose of the WLUG as “
a support community for Open Source and Free Software”
:
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As a support community for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD (and other Open Source or Free Operating Systems)
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As a vector for the promotion of Open Source software and Operating Systems within non-profit, commercial and industrial organisations
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As a vector for the promotion of Open Source software and Operating Systems within government bodies, including but not limited to educational bodies of all levels, medical bodies, local and national government, and political parties.
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As a means of providing additional support and resources to its members; including, but not limited to, electronic mailboxes
, access to a public Linux server, access to a society library of technical books. Only members of the society have access to these resources, but anyone who is interested is (***)
invited to become member.
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-Our membership fees are currently set at $20. One month after our 2003
financial period began
, we have over 30 paid members. We have 113 people on our Internet (***)
mailing list.
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-We run a free public web site, http://www.wlug.org.nz/, where we offer a Wiki, a publically accessible and editable information database. This web site contains information both on the WLUG itself and on many topics relating to Linux and computing in general. It recieves around 60,000 unique visits (1.4 million hits) a month, and has a following all around the world.
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-!1.7 When was your organisation established? DONE
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As a support community for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD (and other Open Source or Free Operating Systems)
+•
As a vector for the promotion of Open Source software and Operating Systems within non-profit, commercial and industrial organisations
+•
As a vector for the promotion of Open Source software and Operating Systems within government bodies, including but not limited to educational bodies of all levels, medical bodies, local and national government, and political parties.
+•
As a means of providing additional support and resources to its members; including, but not limited to, e-mail addresses
, access to a public Linux server, and
access to a society library of technical books. Only members of the society have access to these resources, but anyone who is interested is invited to become a
member.
+Our membership fees are currently set at $20. One month after the start of
our 2004
financial period, we have over 30 paid members. We have 113 people on our Internet mailing list.
+We run a free public web site, http://www.wlug.org.nz/, where we offer a Wiki, a publicly accessible and editable information database. This web site contains information both on the WLUG itself and on many topics relating to Linux and computing in general. It receives around 60,000 unique visits (1.4 million hits) a month, and has a following all around the world.
+ 1.7 When was your organisation established?
The original Internet mailing list (the official communications channel) of the WLUG was started in late 1998; the list as it exists today contains archives back to March 1999, and we incorporated as a society on 28 November 2002.
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1.8 Is your organisation part of, or managed by, any other organisation/authority
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1.8 Is your organisation part of, or managed by, any other organisation/authority
No.
-!!Section 2: The Project
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2.1 Please give a full description of your organisations project or purpose for which Trust funding is sought
+Section 2: The Project
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2.1 Please give a full description of your organisations project or purpose for which Trust funding is sought
+The project we are applying for is a Demonstration/Education Network for our society. This will consist of three computers, a monitor, wireless mouse and keyboard, equipment as required to connect the computers together to form a network, and custom built casing to secure the equipment together.
-The project we are applying for is a Demonstration
/Education Network
for our society. This will consist of three computers
, a monitor
, wireless mouse and keyboard
, equipment as required to connect
the computers together to form a network,
and a custom casing
to secure the equipment together.
+The demonstration
/education network (referred to as “the equipment” from here on) will be available
for use by members to assist
our goals as laid out in our Charter
, including
, but not limited to
, allowing
the WLUG
and its members
to:
-The demonstration/education network (referred to as "the equipment" from here on) will be available
for use by members to assist our goals as laid out
in our Charter, including, but not limited
to, allowing
the WLUG and its members to:
+• Learn about new technologies
+• Prepare
for presentations at regular WLUG meetings
+• Educate the wider community about Linux and Free Software
+• Offer training
in Linux and Free Software
to members and the wider community
+ 2.2 Tell us why this project should be funded. How is it meeting a significant community need? Include who and how many people will benefit
+A large part of
the WLUG's activity consists of providing monthly training seminars to members
and other interested parties at
its meetings. This training covers a large body of existing and developing technology, and is presented by
members of the WLUG who have become familiar with these technologies, often for the specific purpose of educating the community.
-* Learn about new technologies
-* Prepare for presentations at regular WLUG meetings
-* Educate the wider community about Linux
and Free Software
-* Offer training in Linux and Free Software
to members and the wider community
+As technology progresses quickly, members are finding it more
and more difficult
to find the resources to trial and train on the technology. Certain
members who may have reasonable skills are unable to present seminars due to lack of resources to prepare
and test
the technology prior to a presentation. The equipment we are applying for will meet this need.
-!2.2 Tell us why this project should be funded. How is it meeting a significant community need? Include who and how many people
will benefit
+The equipment
will have the following benefits, both direct and flow-on, to the community as a whole:
-As part of their role
in this community organisation
, many
of the WLUG members
would like
to be able
to research technologies
to give presentations (open
to both WLUG members
and to any interested persons)
. (***)
+• Education and Training - providing skills
in Free software configuration
, deployment, and management will allow access to IT resources by those who might not otherwise be able to afford them.
+• Social and Economic Growth - as the effects
of the training described above flow on to society as a whole, skill levels and abilities rise, and the barriers of entry to potential entrepreneurs are lowered.
+• Cultural benefits - The skills
the WLUG aim to teach using the equipment include the ability to modify Free software to provide such functionality as Maori Language software, and software which follows New Zealand conventions in such areas as law, accounting practice, and tax codes.
+• Demonstrations/Roadshows - Potential partnering with Schools and other community groups
would allow the WLUG
to begin encouraging the development and skills described above across a broader spectrum of the community.
+• Environmental benefits - Many businesses and government bodies have a "technology recycling" plan that includes gifting old PC hardware
to schools and community groups. Typically this does NOT include the software licenses required
to legally use the PCs in a non Free Software scenario. Due
to lack of education
and awareness of Free Software alternatives, these groups are forced
to either break the law by illegally installing proprietary software that they are not licensed to use, or to throw away the hardware, defeating the purpose of the recycling programme. Free Software can usually be installed at no cost and actually enable the recycling benefits intended by these well-intentioned business and government donors
.
-The goals that (***)
can be used to assist in our goals in manners such as providing equipment for demonstrations
, to
allow members
to prepare presentations
+As you
can see
, this equipment will
allow us to extend our philosophy and offer our skills
to a potentially huge segment of society.
+In order to maintain a competitive software environment, the community needs to be educated that there are alternatives available to proprietary software, often at no cost. Education to the wider community could provide benefits to many groups who use information technology, as well as providing publicity and assistance for the society in its capacity as a development and support group. This also prevents a situation where a group is locked into a proprietary situation and forced by the manufacturer through “required upgrades” to pay a tax to continue using their software.
-* Education/Training
-* Society Development (Growth)
-* Software relevant to New Zealand users (for example, localised to NZ laws such as tax laws, or cultural such as Māori language) (***)
-* Presentations/Demonstrations/
-* Community groups – lower IT costs by using Linux
-* Run training
-* Software development/testing for projects
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-The community needs to be educated
that there are alternatives available to
proprietary software, often at
no cost. Education to the wider community could provide benefits to many groups IT, as well as providing direct support for the LUG in its capacity as
a development and support
group.
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-If Joe Community Group has
20 PCs
and pays $x,000 for
Windows based solutions
they could save
$x
,000 a year
+An often publicised advantage of Free software is
that, unlike most
proprietary software, it has
no licensing
cost. If
a community
group had
20 PC’s donated to them with no software
and they wished to license them to run Microsoft
Windows and Microsoft Office,
they could be looking at
$2
,000 per computer, or $40,000 to make their “donation” usable. However,
a Linux solution could be installed on these computers at negligible actual cost (other than time and physical media), which would not only replicate the functionality of the Microsoft solution but do so while adhering to publicly documented standards, provide many other applications which would have to be purchased separately on the commercial software market, be much more robust and secure.
We need a method for demonstrating the viability of this move as well as providing support and education for groups who wish to try it.
+ 2.3 If this application is for the purchase of physical assets, how will their security be maintained?
+Loan of the equipment will be at the discretion of the governing committee of the WLUG. Persons borrowing the equipment must be paid members of the society, which implies they have signed a membership form (including their name, address, phone number, e-mail address and occupation) and paid a membership fee.
-!2.3 If this application is for
the purchase of physical assets
, how
will their security
be maintained?
+Before borrowing
the equipment
, the member
will be required to provide suitable identification and sign a disclosure form, accepting full financial responsibility for loss or damage to the equipment.
-Loan of the equipment
will be at
the discretion
of the governing committee of
the WLUG. Persons borrowing the equipment must be paid members, which means they have signed a membership form (including their name, address, phone number, e-mail address and occupation) and paid a membership fee
.
+Each computer
will be equipped with a case lock, preventing access to internal components. Members will not be allowed to open
the cases
of the computers without prior written approval from
the WLUG committee
.
-Before borrowing
the equipment, the member
will be required to sign a disclosure form
, accepting full financial respsonsibility for loss or damage
to the equipment
.
+When not in use,
the equipment will be stored in locked premises
, with best effort made
to ensure
the premises are alarmed
.
-Each computer will be equipped with
a case lock, preventing access to internal components. Members will not be allowed to open
the cases
of the compters without prior written approval from the WLUG committee
.
+Included in our request for funding is
a sum for
the building
of a custom “carry case” housing facility for
the equipment, so it can be safely locked, stored and transported
.
-When not in use, the
equipment will be stored in a locked premises
, with best effort made to ensure
the premises are alarmed
.
+The
equipment will be covered by fire and theft insurance. It will not be loaned out until insurance cover is arranged.
+ 2.4 What is the anticipated timing of your project (commencement and completion) and your timing of your requirement for funds?
+If our application is successful
, we can order
the gear immediately and, excepting delivery delays, it will be available for use within one month
.
-Included in our request for funding is a sum for the building of a custom "carry case" housing facility for the equipment, so it can be safely locked, stored and transported.
-The equipment will be covered by fire and theft insurance
.
+3
.1 How much money is your organisation requesting from SKYCITY Hamilton Community Trust?
+$7100.00
-!2
.4 What
is the anticipated timing
of your
project (commencement and completion
) and your timing of your requirement for funds?
+ 3
.5 If your application
is successful, how would you spend
the amount received from us? Detail separately the elements
of expenditure, detailing the $ amounts of the separate components of the
project.
+Computers 3 @ $1,246.64 $3,739.92
+Keyboard 1 @ $161.56 $161.56
+Monitor 1 @ $558.33 $558.33
+KVM Switch 1 @ $176.47 $176.47
+1.8m Cable 3 @ $43.93 $131.79
+4.5m Cable 1 @ $78.90 $78.90
+4 Port Video Splitter 1 @ $164.16 $164.16
+Network Switch 1 @ $441.84 $441.84
+Ethernet Card 1 @ $116.09 $116.09
+Ethernet Cables 4 @ $4.44 $17.78
+VGA Display Cable 1 @ $44.44 $44.44
+Firewire card 1 @ $53.33 $53.33
+Enclosure
(allowed $700
) 1 @ $622.22 $622.22
-If our application is successful
, we can order the gear immediately and, excepting delivery delays
, it will be available for use within one month
.
+NET TOTAL $6
,306.84
+GST $788.35
+GROSS TOTAL $7
,095
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4.9 Finally, is there anything else you think we should know about your organisation or this project?
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4.9 Finally, is there anything else you think we should know about your organisation or this project?
