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. 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