Thinclients for the Polytechnic Library
During my last stay in Malawi in 2004 when I’ve set up the GNU/Linux System at the Polytechnic Library and I was given an office in the very same building. Now 2 years later when I arrived with the thin-clients the Librarian Martin Thawani decided to give me the same office. We needed more than a day to tidy up the mess, because the room has been used meanwhile as a storage place to put the old computers, monitors and other malfunctioning hardware. It was somehow sad to see, that the computers at the Library were not maintained nor upgraded meanwhile. But the good news was, that they are still running nicely. And aperantly that was the reason, they were not updated.
Many students and lecturers were very happy, that I decided to upgrade them and extend the Library Network with the thin-clients. The computers at the Poly Library are scarce and many students use the internet access for research on their projects.
Therefore the Librarian Mr. Thawani has officially introduced me to the Principal of the Polytechnic Dr. Charles Mataya. After a short technical explanation on the thin-client system and talk about Nathalies and my background he was very happy to see what is going on. Therefore he asked Mr. Thawani to organise the official handover of that thin-client system between me an the Vice Chancellor of the University of Malawi. And also de media shall be invited to this handover. Further the Principal of the Polytechnic asked me to probe for a possible relationship between the Polytechnic an the University of applied sciences and arts in Zurich (HGKZ).
