New York Red Cross Needs Tech Help

zosa writes: "The New York American Red Cross is in dire need of technology equipment and services. The field workers and sites have little, if any, means of communication and the central office is processing way too much on completely paper systems. Your help in acquiring these resources would be greatly appreciated." You can read more over at this page. Finally something that the average Slashdot reader can do to help.

Comments

Getting there is half the fun

[Brento]

My girlfriend works for Continental, so I fly for pretty much free, and ordinarily I'd jump at the chance. However, there seems to be a bit of a transportation problem these days. :-P

A bit off topic, but

[dopplex]

this British News Site is reporting both that the body of a terrorist and a stewardess have been found, and that the Taleban is holding Osama bin Laden under house arrest in Afghanistan.
I'm not sure if this is accurate or not, since I haven't seen either of these things mentioned on any U.S. news channels today, and this is the first I've heard of these things.

Re:MS Office

[Anonymous Coward]

"Gates Kills Bin Laden with Bare Hands -- Slashdot users critical of 'selfish' move"

What about the rest?

[NetJunkie]

So Slashdot, Microsoft donated $10 million. Where is Red Hat, VA, Sun, or others?

Re:Wondeful

[Anonymous Coward]

Agreed. "Fuck you, Toyota" was my initial verbal response. You are correct. "Fuck you, TechTV should have been my response.

Re:All we can do?

[manjunaths]

No because the average slashdot reader is an anaemic, sunlight-starved teenager...

Re:Wondeful

[Anonymous Coward]

nope, just you. I was able to back up to slashdot after accidently hitting the link.

You know what this means, boys!

[Karmageddon]

You know what this means, boys:

Following is the list of equipment that the Red Cross needs for its field workers
and expanded Emergency Operations Centers. It also needs certified Citrix
engineers and Microsoft-certified consultants.

• 
  
• 40 IBM computers and laptops (with NICs)
  
• Any storage solutions
  
• 25 10/100 hubs (8+ Ports)
  
• 100 Cat5 cables (All lengths)
  
• 50 power strips
  
• Any IBM-compatible memory
  
• Any 3Com wireless NIC cards and LAN products
  
• 30 desktop-size UPSs
  

a <drool>Beowulf Cluster!</drool> :-)

Re:Sprint PCS

[Anonymous Coward]

just curious as to how i could go about finding a job such as your and what are the job qualifications. please e-mail me at digital_idp@hotmail.com

Re: How much does it pay?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hell it even crossed *my* mind.. albeit only for half a second :) Maybe the guy wasn't thinking.. *you* should be downmoterated.

Re:Wondeful

[Anonymous Coward]

And of course the moderators don't have the sense to react intelligently to posts. Learn the difference between a complaint and a troll. I'm sure I'm asking too much, and it's a good thing that over time moderation seems to even out otherwise /. wouldn't be worth reading.

All in all it galls me sometimes to have my opinions rated as trolls and flamebait by 14 year old kids and the thirty year old virgins they'll grow up to be.

Take note now so maybe you can get something right for once. This post is flamebait, even if it is a reasonable grievance.

Re:Thanks for the demonstration

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck you moderators.