[luau] HOSEF is lonely without you

[Stan Baptista]

re: I only need a few extra people to INSTALL Linux on
them, nothing more

How much expertise is required?  I'm quite new at
Linux but wouldn't mind lending a hand.

Stan
--- "R. Scott Belford" <sctinc at flex.com> wrote:
> 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
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