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

[Christian Einfeldt]

Thanks, Jim!

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:07 PM, jim <jim at systemateka.com> wrote:

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>     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.
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> 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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