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 <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/" target="_blank">www.ubuntu.com</a>. 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.