[NYLoCo] About Sandra

[Sandra Greer]

I live in Park Slope, Brooklyn, the techie capital of the world :-) .  
I used to be a consultant, and now I work for MHRA Data Link, which  
is a Windows-only support group for an elderly FoxPro application. My  
office is at the corner of Church and Worth. My job is to support and  
train users, as well as mess around with databases.

I got this idea while visiting an agency up in Harlem, whose  
employees live in East Harlem and the Bronx as well as Harlem.

I have been using Linux for many years (originally Red Hat with  
Oracle and Lotus Domino 5) but am not an expert. I have noticed that  
it is getting much easier to use, especially Ubuntu.

Ideally I would like to get an upper Manhattan and Bronx group going,  
but that might take a while. An InstallFest may attract a few folks  
from up there who could be our nucleus.

Sure, let's wait for a solid Gutsy. I just ordered my two copies. In  
my experience, you sometimes need two to get one good pressing.

I don't even have Feisty yet, as my /boot is too small. Next time I  
will leave more space. Meanwhile I need to put it on another disk and  
pull in my backups.
(I can be pretty lame at this stuff.)

Sandra

On Oct 9, 2007, at 2:17 AM, Exa Byte wrote:

Sandra,

Which area do you live, exactly? I may not mind helping out in the
installfest... I gather of course you're going to wait until Gutsy
becomes official and not install the betas :)

If you can give some details (if you already have, I seemed to have
missed them, perhaps you could repost, if you did?) so I can consider
my availability and such.

Thanks!



On 10/8/07, Sandra Greer <aratinga77 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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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