[sf-lug] Pizza, Networking and installing Linux at Creative Arts Charter School

[jim]

    I like it. Christian and the Partimus group are helping 
schools and Linux and open source. It's a good thing and 
worthy of support regardless of their choices of terms. 




On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 18:02 -0700, Gmail wrote:
> Oh no!!  Here we go again!!  😜
> 
> Sent from Dan's iPad
> 
> On Aug 17, 2012, at 5:16 PM, Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The school year is starting at the Creative Arts Charter School, a
> > public charter school in SF, and so we (Partimus volunteers) will be
> > working there tomorrow, Saturday, August 18, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00
> > pm, at 1601 Turk Street at Pierce Street to take the first steps
> > toward assessing the network with an eye toward installing wifi and
> > Linux on the notebook computers that arrived recently:  
> > 
> > http://blog.partimus.org/?p=357
> > 
> > Our goal for tomorrow is to look at the network; assess it for wifi;
> > assess whether we can put a server in the telco closet for a variety
> > of services; and then potential mass installation of Linux onto the
> > notebook computers.  If we are not able to mass install Linux on the
> > notebooks, then we might have to just take as shot at installing
> > Linux individually on as many of the computers as possible.  The
> > kids start school on Monday, so we are going to try to get as far as
> > we can tomorrow.  If we only take a few baby steps, that is fine.
> > 
> > Please bring with you copies of Ubuntu 12.04 on USB sticks and CDs,
> > in case we need to manually install it.  Please also bring cable
> > testers, screw drivers, pliers, and anything else that you would
> > need to get into notebook or desktop computers, triage them, and fix
> > them.  If you have any spare wifi routers to donate, that would also
> > be a plus.
> > 
> > Our other goal is to have our special yummy pizza at 1:00 pm.
> > 
> > If you would like to help, please come to the corner of Turk and
> > Pierce, and call me or text me at 415-351-1300 as the school is
> > quite large.  If I don't respond right away, please understand that
> > there might be other people who are calling me or texting me at the
> > same time, and I will get to each of you as soon as I can.  
> > 
> > Any re-tweets, re-dents, and re-posting of this email is
> > appreciated.  Here is a permalink for this post on our Partimus
> > site:
> > 
> > http://blog.partimus.org/?p=368
> > 
> > Thanks, Christian Einfeldt for Partimus.org.
> > 
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