[frgeek-michiana] Re: Volunteers
- From: Phil Goldbach <shadowvar8541@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:03:34 -0800 (PST)
For those of you interested, there is a projector in the works that projects a
TOUCH screen! Link is here:
http://www.switched.com/2010/01/08/light-touch-pico-projector-creates-touchscreen-out-of-anything?icid=sphere_blogsmith_inpage_engadget
Looks pretty cool, although it's still in development and release date is
unknown.
I do see one or two potential problems with setting up kiosks for SJCPL.
1-Kind of obvious, but since these kiosks are going to have Linux on them, then
at least one or two volunteers will have to be present to help with any
questions.
2-The people filing for unemployment may expect someone from WorkOne to be able
to help them, and I do believe the news article in the South Bend Tribune said
there wasn't always one on hand.
I'd be willing to come on a more regular basis if we get more volunteers in. If
so, in order to help co-ordinate new volunteers, I do have a few two-way radios
that I'd be willing to let FGM borrow. This would work out well instead of
saying having to always run back and forth between the work area and storage
area, also saves on cell phone usage, even though we are all basically "right
there". I'd also need transportation on those nights, I'm sure I could work
something out with Chuq for Thursdays, but if I'm needed also on Tuesdays, then
I am sure I can figure something out for that as well, maybe I can talk my
girlfriend into coming and helping, lol.
Phil Goldbach
"Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades."
--- On Sat, 1/16/10, Chuq <chuq00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Chuq <chuq00@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Volunteers
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 9:30 PM
Read further into the post, unless it did not go through for some reason.. So
here it is:
"How ever we go about advertising for volunteers I think the biggest thing for
us to do is to make sure that they contact Goose or myself first so we can make
sure that we do not have an over abundance of people on one night and none on
the next, plus we don't want 18 people showing up at one time on any given
night.. just too many new faces for us to supervise.
I am trying to get a Google voice number for people to call so that way I can
return their calls, and also leave some information on the voice mail about it,
but unfortunately the 574 area is quite expansive and I am not finding anything
that is "local" I am finding numbers for Royal Center Galveston Logansport
Akron Walton which are all 574 it is just that they may be faced with a toll
call but most people have a cell phone anyways. Plus we can give them an email
address to reply to. I feel that is going to be the best bet. You know we can
only go so far to make things easy on the people if they have to incur a small
charge to get the info then that is what it will have to be. I will grab a
number and post it when it is ready, and Goose if you could make us up an email
address say volunteer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and give you and me access to it
(and anyone else who would need it to field volunteers) or maybe have that
email automatically forward the
messages to us.
Let me know before I pick a phone number if that sounds good to you..
The Flier once it is made can say Call, Email, or TXT us at and then give the
appropriate info..
Just a thought. Once we make actual contact with the people we can then tell
them the location of the building. On the flier we can put in the days and time
and say that we are near Downtown South Bend, and Bus accessible.
If someone wants to work on a rough draft of the flier and send it to us that
would be great! We can always fill in the information needed.
Printing should not be an issue, Goose has the printer at the warehouse ready
to go I believe. I think we still need to find th color printer, which probably
would be a nice thing to use for the fliers.
Chuq"
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 20:45 -0500, Richard Zimmerman wrote:
What phone numbers are these?
I've noticed, they are all long distance numbers. Less then desirable...
Richard
On 01/16/2010 2:19 PM, Chuq wrote:
I think right now if we can have 8-10 volunteers a night we will be
good.. The biggest issue I see is that along with Goose and myself it would be
really handy to have a seasoned volunteer in there with us so they can help
with direction and overseeing...
BTW Here is a sample list of numbers I found for us to use, any
suggestions on it would be great!
Royal Center, IN (574) 643-1FGM ** Chuq's #1 pick
Galveston, IN (574) 699-FGM6
Galveston, IN (574) 699-FGM3
Logansport, IN (574) 516-2FGM
Galveston, IN (574) 699-FGM9 ** Chuq's #2 pick
Walton, IN (574) 626-8FGM
Galveston, IN (574) 699-FGM2
Galveston, IN (574) 699-FGM4
Galveston, IN (574) 699-3FGM
Lucerne, IN (574) 889-0FGM
Chuq
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 10:44 -0800, john jones wrote:
or they can be on someone elses puter looking for a puter,to
relieve the congestion and traffic i really think we should set a par on how
many voulenteres we bring in cuz more then likely as b4 once they put in theyre
hours and get theyre free box more then likely theyll be gone unless of course
something goes wrong with it....
From: Chuq <chuq00@xxxxxxxxx>
To:frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sat, January 16, 2010 1:18:51 PM
Subject:[frgeek-michiana] Re: Volunteers
Plus with Craig's list they already have a computer, now granted
they might know someone who could benefit from FGM but I think the better idea
is Toms with passing out flyer's.
Chuq
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 10:32 -0500, Richard Zimmerman wrote:
Thieves looking for an easy hit...
Just sayin...
Goose
On 01/16/2010 10:20 AM, Tom Brown wrote:
> I think advertizing for volunteers on Craigslist is an excellent idea.
> I also think it is good to coordinate with Chuq and Goose.
>
> We might want to pass out flyers about FGM at the public library on
> Sundays as well. There are a lot of unemployed people who might be
> interested in volunteering to have something productive to do and
> obtain a computer and training in the process.
>
> Tom
>
> john jones wrote:
>> I can put an add on craigslist but i can almost guarenttee you when i
>> do theyre gonna be lined up at the door mostly because of the
>> unemployment computer crisis thats goin on,at the other warehouse it
>> was pretty easy because we had unlimited space,unfortunately we dont
>> have that luxury at SBWD so if we get 20 volunters what are they
>> gonna do? we really should prob wait until at least Feb when we are
>> cleanned up and have internet and a gameplan,its really up to yall,
>> though is open for input..................
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> *To:* frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> *Sent:* Fri, January 15, 2010 11:15:53 AM
>> *Subject:* [frgeek-michiana] Re: Warehouse Report
>>
>> Hardinfo
>> http://hardinfo.berlios.de/HomePage
>>
>> I don't think hardinfo is bootable so you would need a live CD with
>> hardinfo installed. Perhaps DSL live, RescueCD or Slax could be a
>> base, the lighter the better. I'm not sure how hardinfo reacts to
>> proprietary OS's.
>>
>> If you want to see hardinfo in action, boot up VL 6.0 Std, click on
>> Menu > System > System Profiler and Benchmark. Or check out a screen
>> cast at http://wiki.hardinfo.org/Screencast.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> Chuq wrote:
>> > Well tonight was a pretty good night.. Present were Phil, Dan &
>> Chuq. Kevin stopped by with a donation of 2 hard drives.
>> > Dan hung the lights over the deman table.
>> > Dan, Phil and myself searched for mice, and we found some.. found
>> more that were ball-less though!
>> > Phil & I started sorting through stuff.. We have a gaylord that is
>> declared Ebay for everything that we are not going to use.
>> > Phil & I started sorting through the optical drives and getting
>> those organized.
>> > We then started working on hard drives.
>> > We managed to locate the VL 5.9 disks and the deban disks, so we
>> now have 6 sets for the load table.
>> > I am going to look into the floppy disk assest manager program that
>> has been tossed around the board for a while (hint if Mike or anyone
>> else has the link readily available please send it) so we can start
>> cataloging the systems.
>> > We need some more volunteers! We are ready to start loading.
>> > Ideally I think we need 1 person on loading, 2 or 3 on deman and 2
>> or 3 on organizing and possibly another to go through some of the
>> stuff in the storage area.
>> > So if anyone knows of some people ready and willing to volunteer we
>> sure could use them!
>> >
>> > Chuq
>> >
>> > Ohh BTW we need some TP for the warehouse... it seems that someone
>> used the last of it and did not replace the roll!
>>
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