> Posted by: "Nathan Neff" [email protected] nneff > Date: Mon Feb 9, 2009 8:30 pm ((PST)) > > I'd like to ask the shop experts for 2 things: > > 1) Can we spare an EAC computer that we can donate for a silent > auction? The auction would benefit "Old Newsboys" who gave us a grant > last year. > The computer would need to be ready by early March. It would be nice > to be supportive of our grantors, but we also must make sure we'll > have enough computers (10 EAC kids + 9? adults) in the first weekend > of March.
Depends. Bill is working on creating the graduate image, after which we need to write the image to disk, then clone drives, and build the machines for the kids. I've made an image for Ubuntu resale machines, but it hasn't been cloned or tested yet (Robert, can you verify?). On the adults, that is one big question mark, as far as I know ... Clarence is "point man" on that project, Scott K. (City Museum?) said he'd be the Windows administrator. I believe there are still some similar-make computers in the basement that Doc had intended to use for adult grad machines, but I don't know how many, nor what shape they are in. So, Clarence or Scott, if you can answer this part of the question? Once those are sorted out, no problems if it's an Ubuntu machine. If it needs WinXP, then it depends on if/when/whether something gets donated that's workable that has a valid XP license. > 2) If we donate a computer, can we come up with some kind of branding > (like a sticker for the computers?) Bill Hartnett mentioned that it > would be cool to have stickers that we put on our computers, with > Byteworks logo and contact information. Is anyone (Bicycleworks or > Byteworks) able to take this on? It would involve putting the > Byteworks address/phone next to the logo, and printing it on something > that we can stick on the monitors and computers that we give out. We > would not need a massive amount immediately, but would need a couple > of stickers for the computer that we donate to the silent auction. You could do that with an inkjet printer and a package of Avery adhesive labels -- at least to get started. Better question is, who has the time to design and lay out the labels, and who decides what exactly they should say? Theresa
