[FSF India] US Red Cross Technology Needs From TEN (fwd)

[Frederick Noronha]

Rather sad. There's a national disaster on hand in the US, and the Red
Cross has to spend time searching for licences of Microsoft and other
proprietorial software! See below... --FN

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I pass this on to TEN Members in the hope that people dedicated to helping 
others with this technology can make a difference.

Earl Mardle
Information Manager
TEN

New York Red Cross Needs Tech Help 
You can help by donating computers, equipment, and services. 

September 12, 2001

The New York American Red Cross is in dire need of information 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. 

If you can help, please contact: 
Joe Leo, Assistant Director, Business Applications, IT 
American Red Cross in Greater New York 
phone: 212.875.2409 
email: jleo@arcgny.org
150 Amsterdam Avenue 
New York, NY 10023 

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) 
Monitors (with desktops) 
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 
15 LaserJet printers (HP 1100 or faster) and printer supplies 
20 external Zip drives and disks 
Any diskettes and R/W CDs 
5 external CD burners 
5 duplex document scanners 
25 extension cords 
any colored tie wraps 
any Velcro cable wraps 
50 Citrix client licenses 
12 PCMCIA LAN cards for IBM P20 ThinkPads, preferably 3Com  
(in addition to those in the new PCs) 
50 Microsoft Exchange CALs 
35 Microsoft SQL CALs 
50 Microsoft Office Professional licenses 
15 PC Anywhere licenses 
DSL lines 
PDAs with wireless capacity and service 
Nextel cellphones and service