[Csped] Power2People Goals (and a question)

[Joey]

Ill start with the question.  Are we looking for a portable system?  
Clearly there are pros and cons to a portable machine.

Things our system should be capable of:

1.  Connecting to a network for weather information, email, web browsing 
and so on.
2.  Word processing
3. Multi-user capability, with extremely limited access to normal user 
accounts (the less access the average user has, the less maintenance the 
system is likely to need).
4. Very basic and easy interface... much of what is available in open 
source operating systems will be completely useless to the average user 
of these systems.
5. Update capability, likely over a local connection, possibly to a 
central, more powerful machine.
6. Some sort of method to completely reset the system to its original 
configuration, in case of extreme malfunction. Obviously the easier the 
better
7. Install that can be easily changed for locality.  Language, special 
applications and so on.

I don't have much to say about hardware, it might be best to figure out 
what we want to be able to do and then build our system around that.  It 
would be a shame to build a system, only to realize later it is 
completely useless for our goals.

Doesn't matter to me what I end up doing, Im more than willing to take 
any job nobody else wants to do, although there are enough interesting 
topics that I don't see that being a huge problem...

I hope to see more of these by tomorrow!  See you all in Software 
Engineering HAHAHA (Im sure we will have loads of fun :))

Joey