"Timothy L. Bolz" wrote:
> I'm going to try every week to give an synopsis of what we did and how
> many people. I'd like to get more people involved coming to the weekly
> clinics and see Linux as a force in Eugene.
>
> It would be great to get some major people involved in Linux to come here
> and give a talk. Linus,Stallman, MadDog and all the others out there who
> are making Linux a success. And I forgot our very own Bob Miller <kbob>
> who's working behind the scenes. :-)
>
> For the last two weeks we've been having around 30 people showing up.
>
> If I can remember right there were 5-6 computers there. I don't know if
> everyone's goal were accomplished. I know two of us were getting Debian
> install/upgrades. I know I was busy on upgrading my box. I believe it was
> John who was working on video problems. The other 2 computers I have no
> idea what what going on there were 4-5 people around each.
>
> Mike and Seth got a tower going with a cd-rom burner and they were in the
> process of putting Debian to be used as a mirrored server in case the DSL
> line goes down.
>
> There was talk about getting some hardware donations from some of the
> hardware companies. We could be a test for their products. It's not a
> bad Idea. If we had one box set up for Demo's / howto Demo's. This would
> be great. This way we could do a clinic every week. I'm sure this would
> be great success.
>
> There was also a discussion about a beuwolf cluster. If we had
> the hardware this could be excelent to work on. Everyone could learn and
> it would look good on a Resume. Set up a Beuwolf cluster. I don't know
> how pc's we would need and this would take up space on the desk unless we
> decided to put them under the bench.
>
> I think it would be great if we could have some flyers or cards printed to
> be put in some of the computer shops. I know a lot of people heard of
> linux and this would give them an outlet to go and find their answers.
> Plus it would be be good for all of the linux consultants who come to
> help on thursday. We get more users at home which then find linux is a
> much better OS which then they install it at work.
>
> Tim
Outstanding ideas, Tim. I would also suggest we consider a CD-Duplicator,
although it would require several donations from members. Since we are always
copying theis-or-that CD for other members, it would probably be a "good
thing".
Anyone else?
Regards, Jim Darrough
