Getting it done in Phila!

[jedijf]

Ok, one week, two good events; Release Party and MALT Mini-Installfest. Would have been great events, but in our zeal to accomplish events, people who wanted to participate could not find us.

I apologize for this. Can't believe that it happened two times in a row. There is no excuse. We have plenty of places to provide adequate information to make all events accessible and easy to find.

Kevin had suggested we provide contact info, so I have added my cell phone number as a contact number on all the wiki pages of events I am involved with. If you are planning on attending an event, please take my number with you.

Also, I always have paper, pens, a sharpie, and tape with me, so making signs and posting them will always be done in the future.

If you have tried to come to an event, and couldn't find us, please don't give up. WE NEED YOU. Let us know what we need to do to make the events more accessible and we will do our very best to comply.

[jedijf]

I added GOOGLE Map information to wiki sites for MALT and NTR events, to assist people in getting to events at these locations.

MALT
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UT...&t=h&z=19&om=1

NTR
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UT...36a52866fe16cc

Hope this helps.

[jedijf]

REMINDER: Canonical Shop ORDERS DUE soon !!
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewJerseyTeam/GroupOrders


NTR Training on Monday November 19th

See

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Pennsylvania...am/NtrTraining

for more info.

Added BONUS:

Ntr has one donated Dell Optiplex GX110 PIII700 business desktop.

There may be more !!

[jedijf]

MALT Meeting Wednesday 7pm

Next Meeting

Date: November 28, 2007
Time: 7:00 pm
Topic: IRC

The MALT participants will be shown how to utilize the various IRC clients available in Ubuntu. Channels that offer HELP and ASSISTANCE will be featured. The Pennsylvania Ubuntu LoCo Resources; http://www.meetlinux.com, mailing list, forums, gallery, and wiki will be introduced.

Further info :

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Pennsylvania...hTeam/LTSPMALT

[jedijf]

Greg Jenkins of the Mt. Airy Learning Tree Computer Volunteer Group
(MALT CVG) has sent another project in our direction. Here's a
description of the project provided by Greg several weeks back:

MALT PROJECT DESCRIPTION (START)

*** Situation ***
Kids at 5 local schools run a fresh produce market on a rotating basis.
The Weaver's Way Food Co-op, sponsors this and has a program
coordinator
to supervise. The co-op members work in the store as part of their
dues. When in the store they use a MS-Excel spreadsheet to calculate
the sales.

*** Our Mission ***
Configure 6 laptops (1 spare,1 for each school) to do the same thing.
The laptops will not have hard drives, but will have CD-ROMs and USB
ports. Have couple of volunteers demonstrate using the laptops to the
kids at each school. CVG will supply the laptops and Flash drives, if
necessary. The only program that needs to be run is Calc.

*** Outcomes ***
1. The kids get to work in way that more closely resembles the adult
run
store.
2. A few kids at several different schools get familiar using ubuntu
and
OpenOffice.
3. We get some use out of the laptops that don't have hard drives.
4. A small donation to CVG & the LoCo Team.

MALT PROJECT DESCRIPTION (STOP)

OK, now to discuss our roll in this. As of yesterday (Saturday 12/8),
some of the information needs to be modified. For starters, we are not
using Ubuntu or OpenOffice's Calc on these laptops. They're simply not
powerful enough to run them. It will be either Puppy or Damnsmall
Linux. I picked up two of the laptops yesterday, proceeded to burned
an
afternoon and a portion of the night testing them out. I'll send
detailed results of that testing in a separate post.

Here's a brief overview of the rough PA LoCo plan to support this
project:
1. Install Puppy or DSL to CompactFlash for use with CF to IDE adapter.
2. Test this installation on two of the laptops.
3. Verify that the spreadsheet works well with Gnumeric application.
4. If 1-3 are good, purchase 6 CF cards and adapters from Microcenter
and eBay, respectively.
5. Install to rest of laptops at next meeting with MALT CVG classroom
on
12/19/2007.

The schedule may seem aggressive but much of it already done. More
details on the testing is coming in my next post.
Best regards,
Kevin Valentine

[jedijf]

Kevin Valentine wrote:

<snip>

For starters here are the details and specs on these laptops:
Model: HP OmniBook 900
CPU: 300 - 333 MHz PII
RAM: 32 MB
HDD: none, using CompactFlash + adapter
Video: NeoMagic with neo2200 chipset and 2560 kB of vram

NOTES:
1. So far video only works well in DSL, possibly because it uses the
framebuffer for video.
2. On Puppy the video comes up using the vesa or neomagic driver but
the
graphics slows down and eventually freezes.
3. In order to boot from the CF drive you must set the CHS info in the
BIOS.
4. In order to boot DamnSmallLinux (DSL) you must pass these boot
parameters: noagp vga=788

FOLLOW INFO HERE:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...r/subject.html