[NYLoCo] InstallFest for Gutsy aimed at Newbies (clueless Windows users in underserved NYC areas)

[Sandra Greer]

That is a great idea!

We need 2 guest lists:

People who can carry their CPUs (that's all, right?) to a site
People who need house calls.

And a date/time that is after work / school.

I am hoping that students and geek friends can get to the site, while  
the older folks may need house calls.

The idea is to develop a network in each neighborhood.

I'll start getting my mailing list together and sending some notes  
out about expressing interest. You know, this may just be the right  
time of the year for the cash-strapped parents to arrange for a  
better PC without buying a new one. I know nothing about games, but  
for schoolwork this could be the real solution.

Sandra

On Oct 8, 2007, at 3:45 PM, Zach Stern wrote:

I've got a great idea guys, re: sandra.

Why not a post-october 18th gutsy installfest!

While all of us are fine runnning beta products and such, I can't in  
good conciounce reccomend a beta OS to a non-geek.

But after october 18th lets get all these people into a room and  
install Ubuntu for them. (I'm happy to make housecalls if necessary)

-Zach

On 10/6/07, Sandra Greer <aratinga77 at verizon.net> 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.

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.)

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.

I run Linux and Mac at home, Windows XP at work.

Please connect me with whatever is going on.

Sandra Greer
Tech Assistant/Trainer
MHRA Data Link (part of the New York City Dept of Health)




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