[gNewSense-users] Earth Day gNewSense Multi-seat

[Lars Nooden]

Earth Day is next week on April 22nd.

Regardless of anyone's position on Earth Day, the price of energy, 
especially electricity, is going up and no one can give any backtalk 
about that fact.  Also, most desktop systems, unless someone is actively 
typing or clicking, are nearly 100% idle most of the time.

It should be possible to configure X11 on gNewSense to run in multi-seat 
mode so that several users can sit at the same hardware and
reducing electricity, heat and noise, and hardware needed per-user. 
Discussion and demonstration of multi-seat using gNewSense would be a 
way to directly reduce resource consumption while drawing attention to 
software Freedom. Schools, libraries, medium to large families, and even 
some businesses would benefit from this knowledge.

There are potentially a lot of local and regional projects that might 
also be interested and capable of putting together demo systems or 
tutorials. DIY is one of many.  The Ohio Linux Fest might also be 
interested.  There are a lot of eCycler and DIY groups. Or projects like 
LTSP and K12LTSP are two more.  And companies like Userful, Inc, 
possibly yet another.

I didn't hear anything back from campaigns at fsf.org so I'll mention 
the idea here.  The spare graphics card did not arrive this week, so all 
I can do is make noise about it and maybe dig out that theta pin a 
student gave me for the first Earth Day.  Someone with a spare card and 
interest might be able to make a good write up either from an 
environmental perspective or economic or both.

/Lars