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[opensource] Fwd: [Baypiggies] Donating 500 F/OSS Computers to Schools... SATURDAY!! (Pizza & Schwag from Mozilla!!)
J.J. Toothman
jj.toothman at stanford.edu
Thu Feb 28 15:01:05 PST 2008
James,
I can set you up with an acct.
- J.J.
PS
I'll also quickly post this info.
James Jacobs wrote:
> Hey gang. shinjoung, vijoy and I are going to help out at the SF
> location. hope others are doing the same. does anyone know how to get an
> acct for the osl blog? I'd like to post this and send it around.
>
> james
>
> Anna Ravenscroft wrote:
>> FYI - something cool that we may want to let folks know about.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>
>> We're trying to donate 500 Ubuntu computers to Bay Area schools this
>> SATURDAY... and we need your help!
>>
>> Can you lend a hand by volunteering to install Ubuntu? Signup to
>> volunteer at one of the four locations (San Francisco, San Mateo, Berkeley
>> or Novato) here:
>>
>> http://wiki.untangle.com/index.php/Installfest
>>
>> Untangle and the ACCRC refurbishing hundreds of older/discarded computers
>> that the ACCRC has collected with Ubuntu and donating them to Northern
>> California schools. We need support from the F/OSS community to help with
>> the installs. We have automated as much of the install as possible so
>> anyone can help regardless of their experience level. Of course we'll get
>> error messages so we need gurus also! ...And the Mozilla Foundation is
>> bringing pizza & schwag to each location! Thanks Mozilla!
>>
>> Installfest for Schools homepage:
>>
>> http://www.untangle.com/installfest
>>
>> Can't make the installfest but still want to help???? Help get the word
>> out by blogging about it, Digg it or Slashdot it:
>>
>> http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?url=http://www.untangle.com/installfest
>>
>> http://www.digg.com/submit?url=http://www.untangle.com/installfest&phase=2
>>
>> Why the event is cool:
>>
>> -Helps spread F/OSS (Ubuntu, Firefox, OpenOffice & more)
>>
>> -Helps bridges the Digital Divide with underprivileged users
>>
>> -Keeps toxic computer equipment out of landfills (Aprox 25,000 pounds)
>>
>> -Is a cool community effort
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help!
>>
>> -Andrew
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>> Andrew Fife
>> Untangle - Open Source Security Gateway
>> download.untangle.com
>>
>> *******************************************************************
>>
>>
>
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