[kwlug-disc] Installfest help needed

[Chamunks Arkturus]

This would be an incredible event to raise awareness for kwlug.

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 8:41 AM, <chaslinux at gmail.com> wrote:

> And people are welcome to come in to CR before the work party to prep
> machines. Prepping machines consists of cleaning them out with our air
> compressor, putting tested RAM and Hard Drives in and for a few machines
> installing Linux from our PXE network server.
> Blog: http://www.charlesmccolm.com/
> Sent from my cell phone.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca>
> Sender: "kwlug-disc" <kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org>
> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 16:39:08
> To: <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> Reply-To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> Subject: [kwlug-disc] Installfest help needed
>
>
> So word has gotten out that as part of Software Freedom Day we are
> making Linux machines available for free/cheap, and I am kind of
> worried that we might be overwhelmed with people wanting machines.
>
> We have enough hardware to make 30-40 computers available easily, but
> we will need some help in getting these computers ready to be given
> away. We are billing this event as a "Build Your Own Computer" day,
> but like a cooking show we are doing a bunch of preparatory work
> beforehand.
>
> We could really use some help in two ways:
>
> - Helping prepare computers for the event. We have a work party
>   planned for this Wednesday at 6pm to do this; contact me for
>   instructions on how to get in.
>
> - Helping out during the day. It would be really nice if we had enough
>   volunteers so that everybody who comes in to get software installed
>   had their own helper, but that would take volunteer support. If you
>   could sign up for a two or three hour shift on the day of the event,
>   that would be a huge help. Many people are going to get an imaged
>   version of Xubuntu 14.04, but some people will want other things
>   (regular Ubuntu, Fedora, or other things) and that will take
>   additional support.
>
> If you can help us in either or both of these ways please let me know.
> The advantage to this event is that if it is a success then there will
> be a lot of people who are using free software operating systems for
> the first time. (In some sense that is the disadvantage too.)
>
> - Paul
>
> --
> http://pnijjar.freeshell.org
> Join us for Software Freedom Day on Sept 20: http://kwlug.org/sfd
>
>
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