[Discussion] Big Linux computer move next Friday

[Robbie Socks]

Thank you Partimus. You guys rock.
See you all next time.
-Robbie

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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!
>>
>
>
>


-- 
Best,

Robbie Socks
Media Guru/IT Consultant
415.307.0627
www.robbiesocks.com
www.filmwurks.net
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