[luau] Please Help

[Ronald Willis]

I have been far to busy to make it to the meetings in recent history and I
work during the majority of the hours that are scheduled for the
installfest and etc. But can, and want to help. 

Is it possible someone can post a detailed list of what is needed and or
a contact number of someone other than Warren to act as a project manager?

Whether you want to accept it or not, an organization of sorts has evolved
and has expanded beyond the resources of one person. There is no question
of its success, but at what cost.

We have finally gotten permission to revamp the resources avaiable at the
Atherton YMCA and will need the help of the group in short order, but also
we will be able to help support LTSP here on Oahu. 

Please consider posting something as simple as a task list, or a to do
list. 

If any of the above suggestions have been made or are already in effect I
appologize.

Ron

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, R. Scott Belford wrote:

> 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.
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