[Discussion] Big Linux computer move next Friday

Christian Einfeldt einfeldt at gmail.com
Fri Apr 13 19:14:07 PDT 2012


Hi,

Wow, I would really like to thank everyone who showed up at the Creative
Arts Charter School (CACS) today, including CACS parent Robbie Socks, Alan
Tong, Partimus board member James Howard, and Partimus board member Grant
Bowman.  We had a very long day of some really heavy lifting and carrying
up and down many flights of stairs.  I am sure that we moved 2 tons of
stuff today.

This was some really important work that we did today.  The 12.22.2011 fire
really had a terrible impact on the teachers and students of CACS.  One of
the things that it cost them was their computer lab.  Space is at a premium
now at CACS, because CACS has lost one entire building, and has had to cram
all of the kids from two buildings into one.  We are working on bringing
back the lab in the form of notebook computers, but that day has not yet
arrived.  In the meantime, today's work cleared out some very much needed
space for the kids and teachers of CACS.

Special thanks, too, of course, to the really awesome work of Gateway High
School teacher Laura D'Amato, CACS teacher Maria Jenerik, Maria's daughter,
Cicada, and Gateway Spanish teacher Kelly (don't know her last name) for
doing an awesome job of inspiring the kids of Gateway to come over to lend
their strong young bodies to a very very difficult task of doing much of
the work of carrying very heavy and bulky computer equipment down and up
stairs.  Without their youthful vitality, I am quite sure that we would not
have come close to reaching our goal off moving all of that stuff out of
there.  I am so very grateful to those Gateway kids, and I wish I could
personally thank each one of them.

More special thanks are due to Devin Millert and Dave Alevaro (spelling?)
of the Alameda County Computer Resource Center / Marin County Resource
Center for bringing a huge truck large enough to move all of the equipment
out of there.  Devin and Dave, along with Robbie and Alan and Grant, did a
huge amount of work lifting two massive piles of equipment that took at
least 12 people to move from the school to the staging area.

Robbie Socks and Alan Tong were there from the start, and they had the
patience to put up with a pizza delivery service that was an hour late in
getting the pizza there, and that after doing some heavy lifting of
equipment to triage and get ready for the students to move out to the
staging area.

After all of that work was done, Grant Bowman and James Howard stayed after
to get all of the machines up and running in the mini computer lab shared
by CACS teachers Maria Jenerik and Dina Moskowitz.

Once again, this was an amazing bit of heavy work by lots of very kind and
compassionate people.  Thanks so very much to each of you for making it
happen.

I am not sure of all of the names of the people who were involved today.
 For example, I am not sure of the spelling of Dave's name from ACCRC /
MCRC.  I am not sure of the spelling of the last name of Kelly, the Spanish
teacher from CACS.  I am going to post a thank you to our Partimus blog
when I get the spelling of their names correct. Thanks again  so much to
all of you.

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Fundamental changes are under way at the Creative Arts Charter School, due
> to a fire that struck on 12.22.11.  The Linux desktop lab is being
> dispersed to make room for a Linux notebook lab.  If you would like to help
> us move machines, please show up at the Creative Arts Charter School this
> Friday, April 13, 2012, at 9:00 a.m., at 1601 Turk Street at the corner of
> Pierce.  Please bring tools that you will need to triage machines, such as
> copies of Ubuntu 10.04, screw drivers, needle nose pliers, cable testers,
> and so forth.  Also wear old clothes, because you might get just a little
> bit dirty moving machines!  We will probably be done by about 2:30 pm or
> so, depending on how it goes.  And we will feed you lunch!  If you have a
> camera, please feel free to bring it!  Also, people who can drive a truck
> or a car are especially welcome.
>
> Please feel free to call my google voice number at 415-935-1701, which
> rings through to my cell phone, so that I can help orient you, as the
> school is fairly large.
>
> You can read more about the fire here:
>
> http://blog.partimus.org/?p=159
>
> Come join us and be a part of this watershed event in the history of Linux
> in San Francisco public schools!
>
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