[luau] Please Help

[R. Scott Belford]

On Thursday 18 July 2002 01:15, you wrote:
> Sorry I haven't yet responded to many messages.  I have a huge e-mail
> backlog right now and too many projects left to do.  I am very overworked
> here and I could use the community's help with a few things:
>
> 1) I need more people to help at Friday's InstallFest at the University.  I
> think there are more new people coming than usual, so we could really use
> perhaps additoinal 2-3 knowledgable Linux people to help assist.
>
> 2) The group website http://www.mplug.org needs a complete overhaul.  We
> need more content, especially the stuff about our Linux for schools
> projects.  I could use help in writing content for these pages.  What I
> need most are complete suggested outlines of a content map, and the actual
> paragraphs that may be used within this content.
>
> I will post more things you can do to help soon.


It is clear that we must develop a communication infrastructure that can 
accomplish our goals with the LTSP without depending solely on Warren.  The 
strength of this project must not rest in the hands of one person.  An 
improved mplug web interface with some kind of bbs would certainly help us to 
get there.  The geographic challenge of getting to MidPac to offer volunteer 
help might be too much for some.  

My employer, Pricebusters, has offered to help.  We have a substantial space 
in our new Stadium store where I have received numerous Sparcs, Apples, PC's, 
and a ton of Monitors from Hickam.  We have them here because MidPac is 
bottlenecking with all the stuff that we have already received and have not 
deployed.

We also have space at the store where you can come volunteer and help with 
the project.  With a BBS system or something better we can start threads 
about particular hardware we have requiring assistance.  We can alert the 
group about the needs of the project.

The project seems to be lacking the needed human resources to make it as 
successful as we should all want it to be.  I can help write some of the 
paragraphs and information concerning the LTSP to be posted on the MPLUG 
site.  Maybe this will pique more interest.  Hopefully the space available at 
Pricebusters and at MidPac will be convenient and enticing enough for you to 
come lend your helping hand.

As it stands, until I can filter through the mountains of stuff currently in 
our warehouse, it will be hard to receive many more donations.  Warren and 
company have done an outstanding job getting the stuff at MidPac refurbished 
and ready.  They can't really take much more stuff until some of it is 
installed.  It will be a tragedy to have to refuse free equipment because it 
cannot be accomodated.

Warren is not superman, and his powers will wilt under the strain of far too 
many projects.  I am guilty of waiting on him to do things for the project 
that I could have done myself.  We subscribe to this list because we believe 
in the role Linux and Open Source Software will play in our futures.  Let's 
be proactive in spreading this enthusiasm to the place where more minds are 
influenced than anywhere else, School.

If you plan on helping sooner or later, try to make it sooner.  This project 
is moving forward, and it will succeed.  We are so much further along now 
than we were just two months ago.  We are bottlenecking over human resources 
and schools to give the stuff to.  This is where you come in.

scott



re: the installfest- I regret that I will not be able to offer my limited 
help to this affair because of our store opening that day.