Will do!! Thanks, Cleve
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [brluglist] Notes from 4/1/02 BRLUG meeting, plans for Linux advocacy > Thanks, Cleve. I will let you know. But, I recommend > that you consider telling your source to donate them > to cacrc.com instead. Unless they have special > circumstances precluding them from doing so. > > I think that going through cacrc.com would be the most > efficient way, but contact me directly with details. > > Thanks! > > John Hebert > > --- Cleve Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John, > > I may have a resource to obtain quite a few used > > monitors within the next > > couple of months if that would help out with the > > CCCC Linux SIG or the > > Introducing Linux to the Computers for Louisiana > > Kids projects.....just let > > me know. > > Cleve > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "John Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 2:34 PM > > Subject: [brluglist] Notes from 4/1/02 BRLUG > > meeting, plans for Linux > > advocacy > > > > > > > Just wanted to let everyone know what happened at > > the > > > last BRLUG meeting. > > > > > > We meet at 7pm at Coffee Star near Denham springs. > > > Very nice little place, conducive to tech geek > > > conversation. The coffee was _excellent_. If you > > are > > > looking for a non-chain type of neighborhood > > coffee > > > shop, try it out. > > > > > > There was about a dozen BRLUGers there. We started > > the > > > meeting by swapping a few anecdotes of triumphs > > and > > > setbacks with our various Linux setups. Then we > > > started speaking about the Consumer Broadband > > > Protection and Television Promotion Act. The > > latest > > > news is that Sen. Patrick Leahy, head of the > > Senate > > > Judiciary Committee, basically killed the bill in > > its > > > current form during a recent committee meeting. > > This > > > is good news for geeks. More info: > > > > > > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51425,00.html > > > > > > So, we all agreed that we have a little breathing > > > room. We then discussed ways of contacting our > > elected > > > representatives and how to effect change. > > > > > > This led into my description of what is happening > > at > > > the Cajun Clickers Computer Club. A few of us in > > BRLUG > > > and the CCCC have started a Linux SIG. It will be > > > aimed primarily at newbies and in fact will be > > aimed > > > at helping Microsoft user realize that Linux is > > not > > > what Microsoft says it is ("un-American"). I > > briefly > > > described my plans for the CCCC Linux SIG, which I > > > will be providing in HTML form soon. Basically, we > > are > > > combining the BRLUG Newbies meetings with the > > Linux > > > SIG, as the CCCC has a permanent location with > > > Internet connectivity, AV equipment, lots of old > > > computer hardware, and chairs. Very nice setup. > > > > > > I also described my vision of a Linux Lab there > > built > > > with old PCs deemed "junk" as they are not > > suitable > > > for running M$ operating systems. I have been > > given 4 > > > machines from the CCCC, which will become a server > > or > > > two, and two workstations. Eventually, I hope to > > have > > > a few more servers and about a dozen workstations. > > > This may not happen until the CCCC moves to its > > new > > > location in July, at which time we will have lots > > of > > > space. > > > > > > I also described a couple more projects that I've > > been > > > working on: > > > > > > Introducing Linux to the Computers for Louisiana > > Kids > > > project (http://www.cacrc.com/CLK.htm), which is > > > basically a program that receives old PCs from the > > > Corporate Recycling Council, teaches school kids > > to > > > fix them up, and then donates them to Louisiana > > > Schools. Now, think about the possibilities if we > > > helped them learn about Linux and helped them to > > > develop Linux networks. > > > > > > Related to that idea is starting a project using > > the > > > resources of the CCCC Linux SIG to acquire old PCs > > > from cacrc.com, fix them up, install various Linux > > > software configurations on them, and donate them > > to LA > > > schools, along with training and support. This > > will of > > > course be a much bigger project, and I am writing > > up > > > the project plans now. The CCCC Linux SIG will be > > > directing this project. > > > > > > And another idea I had: A project that organizes > > LUGs > > > everywhere to burn Linux distributions and other > > > free|open source software to CD, slaps a > > pre-defined > > > label on them, and then donates the CDs to public > > > libraries. I see the mission of free|open source > > > software to be in parallel with that of public > > > libraries: intellectual freedom. Again, the CCCC > > Linux > > > SIG will be directing that project. > > > > > > We closed the meeting by agreeing that having > > BRLUG > > > meetings in various places around the Baton Rouge > > area > > > is a good thing to do. Shannon Roddy offered to > > have > > > the next meeting at LIGO, which is being discussed > > in > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe it was suggested > > that > > > when we do meet at LIGO that we should invite all > > > other Linux groups and SIGS in the area to that > > > meeting as well. Could someone please volunteer to > > > organize that? Contact me for more details. > > > > > > If you have any feedback, please be sure to reply > > to > > > either [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], or the newly created > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. And > > don't > > > forget, there are usually BRLUG geeks hanging out > > in > > > #brlug on irc.openprojects.net. > > > > > > John Hebert > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax > > > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > > ================================================ > > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > > > your subscription information. > > > ================================================ > > > > > > > > > > > ================================================ > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > > your subscription information. > > ================================================ > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! 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