Discards writes "I help run a student group at a Canadian University. For almost 15 years we've supposing students with government-provided services such as web space, email, wireless telephone world wide web on campus, cvs/svn, database access, mailing lists, etc., all using Linux and FOSS. In recent years, however, we have faced flattering obsolete. The teaching hospital now provides field telephone access, people get their email from other places such as Google, which also provides free svn access, web space, and so forth. Since we have a large amount of decent, usable hardware, as well as space, funding and a very fast hyperspace connection, we are looking to perhaps reform instead of just withering away and dying. We would like to ask Slashdot for ideas as to what we could do; preferably commodity that cultivates student study or provides an differently useful service to students, though all ideas are welcome."

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