[ubuntu-us-ut] Bring Back Your Dead Computer Day Was A Success

[Chris R.]

No idea if the group is curious about this but we had a very successful
Bring Your Dead Computer Back To Life Day.

Summary:

41 attempts.
36 successful Ubuntu (or Xubuntu) installs.

Here's a note I sent out to faculty at the college about the day:

Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:36:59 -0700
Subject: [everyone] Many Computers Were Brought Back From The Dead!

I want to thank all the faculty who stopped me in the hallways yesterday to
ask me how the Bring Your Dead Computer Back To Life Day went.  I'm guessing
a few more of you are curious, so it is with great pleasure that I announce
that the event was a stupendous success.  Participants in the Open Source
Software Club worked on over 40 systems that day and successfully brought
about 36 systems back to life. The few we could not save had serious
problems with hardware that even an Ubuntu restore would not resolve.
 Students and club members eagerly welcomed Sanpete residents in Humanities
122 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm and did so with grace and enthusiasm.  I
confess we were almost overwhelmed at one point as we had six stations
restoring desktop PCs and a row of five laptops being worked on all at once!

I have to single out club president Abe Chapman for his valiant and tireless
work that day.  He was at my house picking up monitors at 8:30 am and he
left the event with me at 7:00 pm, after we had cleaned up.  His thirteen
year old brother Jake proved to be essential to the project, as he was the
only one of us who was truly expert at troubleshooting systems that
initially proved difficult to restore. And of course I have to thank each
and every student who showed up and donated his or her time, effort and
energy, making the event not only successful but fun for everyone who
arrived. Morgan's cookies were awesome and universally appreciated!

The final club meeting of the Open Source Software Club is Tuesday, December
1st at 6:00pm in Hum. 144. Disks and instructions for restoring your dead
computer will be available if you were unable to make our event. You can
learn more about this project at www.ubuntu.com.

Yours in service,
Chris

P.S. I'm attaching a few photos for those of you who might be wondering what
all this looked like.
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