[NYLoCo] Need Newbies and Geeks list for underserved NYC areas

[Karlie Robinson]

One Idea I picked up at the Ohio Linux fest was http://freegeekcolumbus.org

They recycle old machines in a Habitat for Humanity type way. 

You see, the one thing they do is trade volunteer hours for things like 
fresh computers or training sessions. 

There's a lot more info on their site and if it's something you wanted 
to set up here, you could probably do it and use the Ubuntu LoCo team 
for Seed volunteers until other people step forward. 

~Karlie

Sandra Greer wrote:
> I have been running into Windows users who have been cornered  
> multiple times and should become Ubuntu users. As I do Windows tech  
> support all over NYC, for an old nonprofit product, I feel helpless  
> in the face of all this struggling humanity ;-). They have perfectly  
> fine crappy PCs that have become infested, and think they have to buy  
> new ones! They really don't have the money for all this bogosity.
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> I recommend Ubuntu and the help of the local computer geek, but where  
> is the source of all this local action? (I don't think most of these  
> innocents should be alone when they upgrade.)
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> Have you any idea what should be done? I can order a bunch of disks,  
> as I have in the past, but I don't feel right just handing them out  
> to people who are already clueless about Windows and computers in  
> general. We need an "each one teach one" starting in the local junior  
> high school! I haven't time to do them myself, but I go into every  
> borough plus Westchester,  Rockland, and Nassau, as do my colleagues.
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> I run Linux and Mac at home, Windows XP at work.
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> Please connect me with whatever is going on.
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> Sandra Greer
> Tech Assistant/Trainer
> MHRA Data Link (part of the New York City Dept of Health)
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