[ubuntu-us-nc] asheville news

[Mike Holstein]

looks like we will be having a meet and greet in asheville on saturday
september 5th... right now i have the space reserved for 11am to 2pm, not
that we need 3 hours for it... so, if you would like to come, and have some
preference as to a time that morning/afternoon, let me know... also, if you
know some folks over this way, let 'em know about it, and feel free to share
any of my info with them... the space is the firestorm
cafe<http://www.firestormcafe.com/>downtown asheville... very cool
place, although it might be a little hard to
find if your not familiar with asheville... its kind of a co-op type thing
where the workers part-own it, and they run ubuntu on several public
internet terminals, as well as the business computers... i'll send more
details as needed, and as i get the time nailed down...

...also, an update on the Woodland Hills Church Learning Center ubuntu
project i'm working on... i've had the computers for a week or so, and i'm
taking them back on monday... i ended up with 3 decent dells (around 1ghz,
with 512 ram) and the printer is working well, and i set up samba on there
so windows computers (and hopefully macs, but i did not have a successful
test from osx 10.3) can connect to the printer... i set up a dropbox account
for them to sync files... i put a booklet together about how to connect a
windows machine to the printer (with screenshots from xp) and how to find
and make a folder in the dropbox folder... i also did some screencasts
showing how to open, create, save, and print a document in OpenOffice (also
opening firefox, and some dropbox activity)... i'm going to try and get
everything nailed down on monday so the staff can kick the tires... the kids
don't come til thursday... i think monday i'm going to put them on static
IP's, and lock down the UI a little more, and try doing some stupid things
and see if i can make something break... I've already answered some
questions in the past from the staff like "my spell check doesn't work, all
it does is underline the words", so i'm expecting some problems, but i think
ubuntu will be more natural feeling than windows 2000... anyway, wish me
luck...

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MH
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