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Where it all started [2014-04-12]

For this week and next, we are staying close to home and working at Compostela National High School (CNHS).  We served there from June 2006 to December 2008 as U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers, and it’s where the Reneal IEO low-cost computer infrastructure was conceived and initiated.  Now it’s funny to think back on those days and realize how primitive our computers were, how little we knew then, and how much work was ahead to get where we are today with Reneal IEO!

The vision we developed with the principal, teachers, and students at CNHS way back in 2007 was grand: a system distributed across the campus with a centralized server.  We all worked together to deploy around 100 computers on campus, in multiple IT labs, the library, the science lab, faculty department offices, and classrooms.  Neal and I have come back to CNHS each year to make enhancements and upgrade the equipment.  CNHS has truly been the incubator for Reneal IEO’s work, and the CNHS teachers and students have been patient and supportive as the system has gotten faster and more reliable.  This year we expect to retire the last of the Pentium 1/2-era computers that we purchased in 2008. 

Neal’s main goal for this year’s work is to change out the main server hardware.  It’s been running 24/7 for multiple years now, and much better to switch it out now rather than wait for a failure.  The CNHS campus gets a bit quieter each day as teachers finish their end-of-year paperwork, so it’s a good time for that reason as well.  We have also transferred some additional computers to the library and an auxiliary IT lab, and we are adding new tables in the main IT lab to set up more machines.  All of computers will need testing and cabling.  One other big job, completed Wednesday, was the stringing of a pair of Ethernet cables between the main IT lab and the auxiliary IT lab. 

This all maybe isn’t the most glamorous work but it is definitely FUN, especially with our dedicated and competent team working together.  Over our eight years of being closely associated with CNHS, we’ve seen the use of computers expand in so many exciting ways; it is truly motivating to carry on our work there and to think of that becoming a reality at other schools as well!