CRIME [Fwd: [PLUG] Linux Clinic this Saturday]

From: Zot O'Connor (zot@private)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 00:18:20 PDT

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    Hello Folks, I'm sending out our usual announcement for our monthly Linux Clinic. I'm also posting to a wider audience in hopes of sharing a bit of how our local user group has helped us. Our school plays host to the clinic every month on the 3rd. Saturday. We invite Linux experts from the PLUG (Portland Linux/Unix User Group) to come and help with software installs and configurations for local schools, teachers, kids and the public at large. http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/~danh We meet from 1:00 to 4:00 and there are always plenty of folks who come. Everyone helps everyone. We often have goodies to pass out and after a new Linux release it's not uncommon to have several CD-Rom burners going full speed all afternoon. We have our own workstations that boot into Linux from our terminal server for people to play with and folks bring in their own hardware to configure. Let me think about this for just a minute, do I want Linux experts to come to my school every month to help me use free, stable software to provide cool technologies for my students? They won't charge me anything and they enjoy providing support for our schools through our local listserv on a 24x7 basis... Duh... It doesn't take much to realize how well this works! It's fun for the experts too though! For those of you in the Portland area, come and join us. If you've never used Linux before or just want to see what the fuss is all about, you are welcome here. If you're a school and you want to take your first steps this would be a good time to come by. This Saturday we have a special going... We'll configure your hardware to be an Appleshare server and toss in a web server for free! ;-^) My hope is that other LUGs out there would start hosting clinics. If you are from a school, contact your local user group and offer to host a clinic! Linux Journal has a great LUG locater at: http://www.ssc.com:8080/glue/groups along with all kinds of other good LUG stuff. Red Hat hosts another site with lots of links too! http://www.redhat.com/apps/community/LUG/ If you are hosting clinics with your LUGs please let us know or post your info on the K12OS.org site. Lastly, I want to extend a big thank you to all the Linux users who have helped us so much over the years. Your work and generosity really has huge impact in our classrooms. I think we're just now starting to see that in big ways. Helping a local school may seem like a small thing to do but it sure makes a big difference. Thanks! ;-) Paul REMINDER!!! If you want to discuss the July 4th, Software Freedom Day, come at 12:00 with your lunch. -- ====================================================================== Paul Nelson............................... pnelson@private Riverdale School..............11733 SW Breyman Ave. Portland, OR 97219 (503)636-4511......fax(503)635-6342.... http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@private http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

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