Hi, <div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Christian Einfeldt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:einfeldt@gmail.com">einfeldt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Hi,</span><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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. </div>
<div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Please feel free to call my google voice number at <a href="tel:415-935-1701" value="+14159351701" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)" target="_blank">415-935-1701</a>, which rings through to my cell phone, so that I can help orient you, as the school is fairly large. <br clear="all">
<div><br></div><div>You can read more about the fire here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://blog.partimus.org/?p=159" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)" target="_blank">http://blog.partimus.org/?p=159</a></div><div><br></div>
<div>Come join us and be a part of this watershed event in the history of Linux in San Francisco public schools! </div></div>
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