Thanks Lorraine! I just want to echo and reinforce the authenticity she brings to her mission. She also acts as one of LCC's volunteer CIT (Compsci/InfoTech) department advisors, and LCC is another community entity which would love to do more with Linux.
So by all means, LuciferLinux, give them more reason & empowerment. We are the local LUG. If you wish to find fault for the use of Microsoft products, please consider this carefully. I am not very informed about the specific differences between NextStep & FreeGeek, but more-so now. Thanks to both of you! >From my perspective, what we're lacking is a project manager (cat-herder) within the LUG who wants to spend lots of time rallying, organizing, and planning. This is a bear of a job, IMO, and it's not for me. I don't envy it... but I do miss the occasional Saturday Linux presentation. Lorraine, I feel for your insurance situation, and I suppose you already know it well, but I suspect that being able to offer a LUG meeting space, as well as possibly a hardware locker and LAN/WAN, would go a long way to foster growing projects, classes, etc :) ttfn, BenB On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Lorraine Kerwood <lorra...@nextsteprecycling.org> wrote: > Hi there Lucifer, > > I am glad you like NextStep and I LOVE Free Geek too. We were the Macintosh > refurbisher for Free Geek for 6 years-you could say Free Geek and NextStep > have grown up together. I am very supportive of Free Geek and make referrals > to the org all the time. Free Geek rocks - Free Geek and NextStep are the > only two facilities permitted to do reuse within the new state e-waste > recycling legislation-and that is because both orgs are working tirelessly > to dot our I's and cross our T's to keep the data coming in for the state > and follow the EMPs. > > We'll never be "more like Free Geek" as each org has it's special slant on > bridging the digital divide. For instance, we are social justice oriented, > do international and national placements, we spend enormous time and energy > out in our community promoting the importance of reuse, recycling, and > empowering people, and, unfortunately, unlike Free Geek, we have no support > for LINUX builds in our community. > > We have a extensive build program. It is different than Free Geek because we > are a Microsoft refurbisher. Lots more rules and regs built into our process > because of this. However, I have attended Eug-Lug meetings, sent numerous > emails to the group, and begged Euglug folks in public (yes, I admit it!) to > come down and volunteer with us. We have been very grateful for the folks > who have helped out but maybe my "asks" are not done correctly and folks > would prefer to speak with our IT manager.... > > We presently use LINUX on a portion of our builds. It is a small amount > because it ends up sitting on the shelf more often than not. We would love > to do more LINUX, especially with opening a new ReUSE Store in Springfield. > > We would also love to offering training classes, but, can not find > volunteers to offer consistant classes. We can't offer classes on site as > our insurance will not permit it (Free Geek is able to offer classes on > site, the lucky dogs!). > > If you are interested in helping to create a build process for LINUX, make > some boxes, work on a training manual, work on a resource list-we would LOVE > to have you! > > Lemme know what you and others would like to work on. We could so use the > help of knowledgeable LINUX people. > Lorraine > NextStep > >> From: Lucifer Linux <lustfullanecoli...@gmail.com> >> Reply-To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <euglug@euglug.org> >> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:05:10 -0800 >> To: <euglug@euglug.org> >> Subject: [Eug-lug] I appreciate NextStep,but I really wish it was more like >> Freegeek >> >> http://freegeek.org/volunteer.php >> >> I love the way freegeek is very specific about the kind of computer >> volunteers can earn: >> >> http://freegeek.org/freekbox.php >> >> http://freegeek.org/build.php >> ------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
