FreeGeek grant request submitted

As discussed at last week's Monthly Meeting, I took a few spare
minutes this evening to submit a grant request to FreeGeek for a
smallish LCD display for use in node repair outings.  Since we are
looking for small, hopefully that doesn't conflict with the dominant
use-pattern of "bigger==better" as far as desktop displays go.

Once again, for those following along, we are looking for a small LCD
display capable of 80x25 text to attach to our headless router boxes
when something has gone wrong, to help in diagnosing how to best fix
them.  In the past we have borrowed the use of monitors for that
purpose, but we had an experience recently that highlighted the
downsides of that strategy.  Our node host pointed at a monitor that
we could borrow, but it "died" when I touched it, and it turned out to
be the node host's point-of-sale system.  Now, the node host was
gracious about it, and I really don't think it was anything I did, but
being able to not touch node host gear would remove this potentially
embarrassing kind of situation.

The idea is that we could carry a small lcd display in a brief case
along with a keyboard as part of a node repair kit.


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