Free Geek in a Box

There is a lot involved in starting up a new Free Geek. One thing the mothership could do to make a new Free Geek start up more easily is to provide a computer pre-fitted with all the major images a new Free Geek might use, for instance:

a mix of XEN and LTSP servers could hold

• Build
  • Network installation using DebNetInstall
  • image cloning (to make things quick if needed)
  • HardDrive testing/wiping
  • Hardware diagnosis (FGdiag)
  • Squid, or Apt Repository
• Office Tasks
  • Application Server
  • Web and mail and mailing lists server
  • A database server
• Admin of Systems and Security
  • Router and Firewall
  • nagios (system checkup)
  • ssh gate

The idea is that a new Free Geek could order one of these boxes from our grants program and we would ship it, along with enough instructions to build a diskless lab, an imaging server for a build program, a database for gizmo and volunteer entry, etc. The box would come with a minimal instruction manual on paper that would get them up and running. Further documentation could live on the box if necessary. There would be links to a complete web documentation as well.

What else should go on such a box?