[Ubuntu PA] NTR Laptop Project: need volunteers

[Michael Maurizi]

Unfortunately I can't do this coming saturday, but I'm still interested in
this, and you did say it would be a long-term thing right?

On Jan 14, 2008 9:30 AM, Kevin Valentine <kevin.valentine at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Glad to have you on board!  I just updated our LoCo's google calendar.
> Check it out here:
> http://www.meetlinux.com/calendar/
>
> It shows 3 events on Saturday the 19th:
> 12pm - 1pm: NTR Linux Laptop Project
> 1pm - 2pm: NTR Disk Imaging Project
> 2pm - 5pm: NTR Bring a Computer Workshop
>
> Don't feel obligated to stay for the last one.  I usually do it when
> they're lacking support or if I have time.  I doubt I'll have much time
> that day.
>
> -kevin
>
>
> Michael Maurizi wrote:
> > I'm interested in helping out, I'm not that experienced with this sort
> > of thing but it'd be fun to learn.
> > When would I need to be there?
> >
> > On Jan 13, 2008 1:33 PM, Kevin Valentine <kevin.valentine at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> NTR (ntronline.org) is having a real problem with their laptop
> >> inventory.  They have a big room where they keep them and it has become
> >> very disorganized.  It's so disorganized that they are having a
> >> difficult time pushing them out to their thrift store and they can't
> >> find parts to fix existing customers' laptops.  I told Stan that I
> think
> >> members of the PA LoCo can help.  This post is my attempt to gather
> >> volunteers.
> >>
> >> I tried doing this same exact thing last year but it was just me a few
> >> other people.  Ultimately, it failed because we lost an inside man at
> >> NTR.  Now with the PA LoCo matured, I think this is the right moment to
> >> try again.  In order to go forward with this, I requested that Stan
> >> allow us to use Linux in some way.  He said that any laptop that is too
> >> old or odd (no Win drivers) to accept any flavor of Windows, could have
> >> Linux installed on it.  And by any flavor of Windows, I'm pretty sure
> >> that only means Windows 2000 but I'll have to confirm.  If that's the
> >> case, it opens us up to fairly large portion of his laptop inventory.
> >>
> >> The only issue I can foresee the LoCo having with this is that most of
> >> the laptops we'll have access to will only support stripped down Linux
> >> distros like DamnSmallLinux and Puppy.  I see that as temporary.  All
> >> laptops that we can salvage will be put into the thrift store an sold
> at
> >> low prices.  The customers will be very aware that these have Linux
> >> install and there is no support included from NTR.  I believe that
> >> eventually NTR customers will begin requesting higher end laptops with
> >> Ubuntu pre-installed.  It could take a year or more.  But when it
> >> happens we'll be ready for it.
> >>
> >> OK, how will we do this?  I'm looking for at least 4 volunteers from
> our
> >> PA LoCo that can be at NTR once a month.  The minimal situation would
> be
> >> to have one of our people at NTR every Saturday to focus on laptop
> >> issues.  Being a different person each time, we should only need about
> 4
> >> people.
> >>
> >> I know some of you would like to help but traveling into the city is
> >> just not an option.  That's OK.  You can still help!  Jedijf and I
> >> rarely do our laptop work "onsite".  We take the laptops home and, in
> >> our spare time, we hack the hell out of them.  If any of you like that
> >> option, let us know we'll drop off batches to you or we'll help you
> pick
> >> them up.
> >>
> >> There should be other areas where we could use support, like tracking
> >> any of the laptops take out of NTR.  We could use a spreadsheet or web
> >> page for managing laptop information.  Another area of support ... NTR
> >> sometimes receives laptops as lots on palettes.  In those cases, they
> >> tend to image the drives one-at-a-time.  Right now, they're doing this
> >> with a batch of 30 laptops.  Perhaps one of you could introduce them to
> >> a Linux solution using networked imaging.  Any Clonezilla masters in
> our
> >> group?
> >>
> >> I'm sure I've missed some details or created some gray areas.  Please
> >> post your questions and comments.
> >>
> >> -kevin
> >>
> >> PS: I will be making a wiki page where you can sign up and commit to a
> task.
> >>
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