Funding for Skynet
Three years ago, John Quinn took it upon himself to organise some loose environment within the college, based om the Linux operating system. Since then a stable system has developed, administered solely by the students, providing many services, including an FTP archive, a WWW site, USENET access, E-mail, to the students that the college authorities seemingly don't have time to provide. :)
The skynet server is financed entirely by John Quinn.Last year, the Computer Society was set up to provide a medium through which the users of skynet, and indeed any other student interested in computing, could voice their opinions. However, the funds of the Society are low at this stage, due to the short length of time it has existed.
In June of this year, John Quinn will graduate and this will mean that, without an alternative machine to use, skynet and the services it provides will cease to exist.
This, we believe, would be a great loss to the student body in the University of Limerick. We believe it is important for such a system to continue to exist; skynet provides services and experience that would otherwise have been lacking in the college, provided experience to both the users and the administrators that have often contributed, directly and indirectly to employment.
More than that, it's been fun!This is why we now ask for individuals or organisations to help fund a new machine to the Computer Society. Any and all contributions will be welcome and appreciated. We believe the cause is worthwhile and we hope you will too.
Please mail all questions, queries (or donations!) to 1000020@ul.ie