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I wonder if the Center has tried to contact OTX West? Their mission is to supply the youth of Oakland with computers.
http://www.otxwest.org/

I've gone to them when trying to collect peripherals and computer cords to send to Cuba, Bolivia & Haiti, they are nice folks. I haven't paid them a visit since XP became unsupported, I wonder what OS they are blowing on the machines these days.

As noted, the ACCRC is also a resource. They give away a lot of machines, even if James Burgett can be a prickly codger. (Infomed-USA used to also get hardware from him before we somehow pissed him off).

If we want to send machines to the Youth Center I think we should check the machines out first (run smartmontools and memtest for HD & memory) and blow Linux onto them (those old machines probably won't handle Win7 (even if we had licenses) and anyway we should be encouraging use of open sores). I can help with the hardware analysis and have figured out a good way to blow a standard customized Linux image onto old boxen. http://redobackup.org/

On the issue of giving computers to deserving folks, the Pastors For Peace are sending down their 25th convoy of material support to Cuba, they are coming through in mid-July. This year they are trying to get building materials and bike in particular. I'm planning on sending a dozen or so computers. Contact me if you are interested in donating. biow@cubasolidarity.net
http://www.ifconews.org/node/1439

San Jose, California
Event Date: Sunday, July 13, 2014 Route B Details:
Main contact person: Shelby Minister
Contact phone number: 408-297-2299
Contact email address: coordinator@sanjosepeace.org
Event description: Food : Potluck ! Entertainment: TBA
Location: 48 S. 7th St. San Jose, AC
Time: 4: 00 pm

Once things have settled down a bit at the new location I'm going to propose having a regular Linux InstallFest at the sudoroom, maybe Fridays (so I can duck out and pick up my pizzas and bring some back to the room) or perhaps after the Cryptoparties. I've got a collection of installation ISOs on DVD/CDs and USB sticks (http://www.pendrivelinux.com/multiboot-create-a-multiboot-usb-from-linux/ Multisystem is a good way to get multiple ISOs on to a single USB stick). I can also set up a proxy to locally mirror deb archives for faster downloads and updating. I use approx these days, but am also familiar with apt-cacher. squid-deb-proxy sounds intriguing, as well, and I wouldn't mind trying to set that up. http://askubuntu.com/questions/3503/best-way-to-cache-apt-downloads-on-a-lan I think it would be good to have a standard time when folks could come to the room to get help with their open source issues from those of us who have been riding the GNU for a while now.

Alright, time to get off of my vertical smile and see how many receptacles I can find for the great enboxening.

e

>    2. Re: New West Oakland Youth Center needs computers for their
>       new computer lab.... (Steve Berl)
>    3. Re: New West Oakland Youth Center needs computers for their
>       new computer lab.... (Hol Gaskill)
>    4. Re: New West Oakland Youth Center needs computers for their
>       new computer lab.... (Ian McKellar)
> Message: 2 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:33:20 -0700 From: Steve Berl <steveberl@gmail.com> To: DjNeon Leon <nlrock21167@gmail.com> Cc: sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org> Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] New West Oakland Youth Center needs computers for their new computer lab.... Message-ID: <CAB4gGnd3SzSwoRKPEMZifsO+ERpC0_vVW4QJWt2FgVn39yySyg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Also check with ACCRC http://www.ewastecollective.org/wordpress/?page_id=302 On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:48 PM, DjNeon Leon <nlrock21167@gmail.com> wrote:
>> it's neon leon
>> hey just to give you heads up,
>> and a question i have for you
>> have you heard about the brand new west oakland youth center that just
>> opened on on the mcclymonds high school campus?
>> well catch this
>> they have a brand new computer lab but NO COMPUTERS yet because of funding
>> i just saw it on the news not but fifteen minutes ago where they said they
>> didnt have any money to buy computers
>> and the funding wouldnt allow them to buy any
>> so i was talking to max and he told me sudoroom has a pile of desktops
>> sitting next to the door
>> Sent at 11:37 PM on Thursday
>> me: do you think that sudoroom could donate those computers to the
>> youth center computer lab and who would i talk to about getting them there.
>> we could get them ready and get them online maybe
>> it would be a really good thing for sudo and a fantastic thing for the
>> kids in the community if this could happen...
>> hit me back and let me know--much love, [image: :-)] DjNeonLeon
>> Marina: hey leon! probably best would be to email the listserv (
>> sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org) and/or to drop by the meeting next wed.
>> i gotta go to bed now, but that's what i would recommend
>> Sent at 11:41 PM on Thursday
>> me: ok... I will do this for real thank you boo boo . i will see you
>> bat the meeting next wed.. oxoxoxoxox .. nlrock ..
>> Marina: night
>> me: night .. [image: :-)]
>> Sent at 11:43 PM on Thursday
>>
>>
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> -- -steve -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/attachments/20140620/53975838/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 17:30:59 +0000 (UTC) From: Hol Gaskill <hol@gaskill.com> To: steveberl@gmail.com Cc: nlrock21167@gmail.com, sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] New West Oakland Youth Center needs computers for their new computer lab.... Message-ID: <2035128596.175480.1403285459110.JavaMail.mail@webmail06> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi Neon Leon, We have a stack of computers at the space that we'd love to put in the hands of Oakland kids - I am not sure what state they are in, but they are there and no one has stated any interest in setting them up at the space. We also have lots of peripherals that could be of use in a computer lab. Is there someone with the school who can come and help sort through them and find/put together working ones this weekend? We will be moving soon so getting those computers over to the youth center in the next week would be great. Cheers, Hol on Jun 20, 2014, Steve Berl <steveberl@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also check with ACCRC http://www.ewastecollective.org/wordpress/?page_id=302>
> -steve
>
>>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:48 PM, DjNeon Leon <nlrock21167@gmail.com> wrote:>>it's neon leon
> hey just to give you heads up,
> and a question i have for you
> have you heard about the brand new west oakland youth center that just opened on on>the mcclymonds high school campus?
> well catch this
> they have a brand new computer lab but NO COMPUTERS yet because of funding
> i just saw it on the news not but fifteen minutes ago where they said they didnt have>any money to buy computers
> and the funding wouldnt allow them to buy any
> so i was talking to max and he told me sudoroom has a pile of desktops sitting next>to the door
> Sent at 11:37 PM on Thursday
>
> me: do you think that sudoroom could donate those computers to the youth center computer>lab and who would i talk to about getting them there. we could get them ready and>get them online maybe
> it would be a really good thing for sudo and a fantastic thing for the kids in the>community if this could happen...
> hit me back and let me know--much love,   DjNeonLeon
>
> Marina: hey leon! probably best would be to email the listserv (sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org) and/or to drop by the meeting next wed.
> i gotta go to bed now, but that's what i would recommend
>
> Sent at 11:41 PM on Thursday
>
> me: ok... I will do this for real thank you boo boo . i will see you bat the meeting next>wed.. oxoxoxoxox .. nlrock ..
>
> Marina: night
>
> me: night ..
>
> Sent at 11:43 PM on Thursday
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 17:39:16 +0000
> From: Ian McKellar <ian@mckellar.org>
> To: hol@gaskill.com, steveberl@gmail.com
> Cc: nlrock21167@gmail.com, sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org
> Subject: Re: [sudo-discuss] New West Oakland Youth Center needs
>     computers for their new computer lab....
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>     <CAKMDUCbUsY+ON_55LTsMj7hWHkaEZ0MW=firdggqMoYq0UEkrg@mail.gmail.com>
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> I'd love to help out. I am depressingly busy (actually only made it over to
> the sudoroom once) but I will have some time next weekend.
>
> Ian
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