[Ubuntu PA] NTR Laptop Project: need volunteers

[Michael Maurizi]

When is next time going to be, I really would like to help with this.

On Jan 19, 2008 11:32 PM, Kevin Valentine <kevin.valentine at gmail.com> wrote:

> Today was awesome!
>
> Thanks to everyone that showed up.  I didn't get a head count but it
> looked like somewhere around 10 people.  Here's a quick summary of how
> things happened:
>  * we showed everyone the laptop room
>  * Jim and I then took everyone to the classroom and demo'd some
> laptops with DSL installed on the hard drives and compact flash
>  * went back to laptop room, reorganized all laptops that were on the
> shelves.  all PIIs and lower (100-300MHz) were ours for the project.
> i'm not sure how many PCs that was, 50 - 100?
>  * Stan Pokras explained to me and Brian Stempin how NTR does its disk
> imaging.  we have plans to make it better.
>  * pizza appeared and we ate it upstairs in the conference room.
>  * in the laptop room we started handing out laptops from a batch of
> old IBM ThinkPads.  guess what, not many power supplies.  need to find
> more.
>  * Jim and I spoke to a guy that writes articles for the Philadelphia
> City Paper.  He's very interested in what we and The Hacktory are
> doing.  Wants to write something.  May talk with him tomorrow at
> Make:Philly
>
> Pics were taken with my camera phone.  They didn't come out well, must
> of had pizza grease on the lens.  I'll bring a real camera next time.  I
> sent them to pennsylbuntu AT gmail DOT com so they should be in the LoCo
> gallery soon.  If anyone else has pics feel free to send them there.
>
> The sorting process has begun.  Now we need a way to start tracking
> them.  Molly Crowley has some ideas for this.
>
>
> -kevin
>
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