[luau] HOSEF is lonely without you

[R. Scott Belford]

Twice a week I invite the public to our HOSEF gatherings at Pricebusters 
Stadium Marketplace.  This is for all things Linux.  In addition to helping 
you with Linux if you want it, talking about Open Source Software if you so 
desire, or installing it on your machine, we refurbish computers to give to 
schools.

It is important that you know that I am often lonely.  Tragic but true.  All 
this email enthusiasm rarely translates to action.  My record is 3 volunteers 
at the same time.  It does not make me proud, but it is a start.

It is a start that has produced a big pile of computers ready for schools 
like Farrington where I have committed 25 machines by month's end.  
Farrington is a DOE school.  Michael Bishop is the admin, and the machines 
will ultimately benefit the McKinley adult education program.

Let me state that again, because in my 3 years on the island I have not seen 
such an invitation:  I am saying to you that I have taken care of collecting 
and refurbishing enough computers to give 25 to one of our PUBLIC schools.  I 
have monitors, keyboards, mice, and even printers for them.  I only need a 
few extra people to INSTALL Linux on them, nothing more.  YOU can do the fun 
part, pat yourself on the back, and know that you have made a positive impact 
on our schools.  I have done all the hard stuff.  I even have a non-profit 
that was created for YOU so that the opportunity to do this will exist 
forever after I am gone.  I wish this was here 3 years ago, because I could 
have done so much more for our schools by now. 

I have the machines and I have about half of the hard drives.  I need more 
hands to install Linux.  Is it your hands that I need?  Where will they be 
tomorrow, Tuesday, and the Saturdays and Tuesdays to come?

Saturday.  10 - 1.
Tuesday. 6 - 9
Stadium Marketplace Pricebusters.  Directions are here:

www.hosef.org/when.html

"when everything is said and done, why is it that more is actually said than 
done?" -- some poster with a monkey on it in Mrs. Hull's 8th grade english 
class in 1983.

aloha

scott