Attendance:
John Von Hollen: 5-7
Mike Vigilant: 5-7
Heath Tucker: 5:30-7
Raine Miller: 5:30-7
Brian Pitts: 5:30-6:30
Work Done:
Helped a guy with computer problems. He needs a new video card.
[John]
Donated, installed, and set up a new wireless router. Network name is
"Common Ground" and password is, I think, just "password". You don't
need the password to get on--just to change settings. [Heath]
Caught up on financial matters. Wrote CG a check for the balance of
the money we owed them--we agreed to give them half the money from the
Community Connection thing, and John had written them a check to cover
the taxes, but the other part hadn't been paid. We're straight now.
Also, organized and prepared a deposit--it's ready to go to the bank.
Everything is inside the red zipper envelope inside the locked box
[including the debit card] and the slip's all filled out. John might
be able to do that this week. [Mike]
Continued working on installing Edubuntu on more of the small white
Dells to give them to the Community Connection people this weekend.
Things haven't been going well, but I believe some progress has been
made. [John, Raine]
Helped Brian unload computers he borrowed to take to the forum in
Atlanta. We have eight more now. [Brian, Mike, John]
Spoke to Susannah from CG while preparing the deposit. She'd like us
to come up with a basic flyer [quarter-sheet is fine] for them to hand
out when they are doing their events. I told her it was a good idea
and we'd work on it. More details are forthcoming. [Mike]
To do list:
!!**Set 15 computer for the workshop**!!
Setup CUPS print server
Upgrade Twix to Feisty! (Note that the database/apache needs to be
migrated
with it) (setup working cups server first)
Fix the testing motherboard, or replace it
Basket of parts needs to be labeled and tested
Recycle the laptops we don't need or can't use.
Organize shelves and cables on the floor
Replace Eazy-E
Open Hours:
Sunday, July 29: ?
Monday, July 30: ?
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Monday, July 23, 2007
Meeting Report: Monday, July 23rd
Attendance:
Lauren McCall 5-7pm
John Von Hollen 5-7pm
Raine Miller 5-7pm
Work Done:
Spent the whole day trying to install Edubuntu on computers. We had 6 computers going at once. Unfortunately we made no progress what so ever. :-( Despite lots of effort, we were only able to get one to boot from the CD drive. And that one failed about half way through the install. [John, Lauren, Raine]
Checked in on the wireless. It still does not work. [John]
Notes:
Bad day I suppose. No real progress. We were not able to boot from the CD drives on basically all on the computers. I read more about the issue with installing "Edubuntu 7.04 Desktop." It is intended just to be used as a live CD I believe. We were using the Edubuntu 7.04 Server CD to install as a workstation, I believe this is the way to they say to set up computers with edubuntu, but we did not even get one installed.
To do list:
!!**Set 15 computer for the workshop**!!
Setup CUPS print server
Wireless not working? Heath may have a replacement AP. Replacement is needed. current AP is fried and resets have not worked.
Upgrade Twix to Feisty! (Note that the database/apache needs to be migrated with it) (setup working cups server first)
Fix the testing motherboard, or replace it
Basket of parts needs to be labeled and tested
Recycle the laptops we don't need or can't use.
Organize shelves and cables on the floor
Replace Eazy-E
Upcoming Hours:
Wednesday, July 25: John
*Board meeting on the 25th!
Sunday, July 29th: ?
Monday, July 30th: ?
Wednesday, August 1st: ?
Sunday, August 5th: ?
Monday, August 6th: ?
Wednesday, August 8th: ?
Sunday, August 12th: ?
Monday, August 13th: ?
Wednesday, August 22nd: ?
Lauren McCall 5-7pm
John Von Hollen 5-7pm
Raine Miller 5-7pm
Work Done:
Spent the whole day trying to install Edubuntu on computers. We had 6 computers going at once. Unfortunately we made no progress what so ever. :-( Despite lots of effort, we were only able to get one to boot from the CD drive. And that one failed about half way through the install. [John, Lauren, Raine]
Checked in on the wireless. It still does not work. [John]
Notes:
Bad day I suppose. No real progress. We were not able to boot from the CD drives on basically all on the computers. I read more about the issue with installing "Edubuntu 7.04 Desktop." It is intended just to be used as a live CD I believe. We were using the Edubuntu 7.04 Server CD to install as a workstation, I believe this is the way to they say to set up computers with edubuntu, but we did not even get one installed.
To do list:
!!**Set 15 computer for the workshop**!!
Setup CUPS print server
Wireless not working? Heath may have a replacement AP. Replacement is needed. current AP is fried and resets have not worked.
Upgrade Twix to Feisty! (Note that the database/apache needs to be migrated with it) (setup working cups server first)
Fix the testing motherboard, or replace it
Basket of parts needs to be labeled and tested
Recycle the laptops we don't need or can't use.
Organize shelves and cables on the floor
Replace Eazy-E
Upcoming Hours:
Wednesday, July 25: John
*Board meeting on the 25th!
Sunday, July 29th: ?
Monday, July 30th: ?
Wednesday, August 1st: ?
Sunday, August 5th: ?
Monday, August 6th: ?
Wednesday, August 8th: ?
Sunday, August 12th: ?
Monday, August 13th: ?
Wednesday, August 22nd: ?
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Meeting Report: Sunday, July 15th
Attendance:
Max Martin 1-5
Anthony Hamlet: 1-5
Work Done:
Tried setting up hp laserjet 4000 on pretzels, ren and cube. Came to conclusion that feisty has issues with cups over parralel port.
Disassembled old mac laptop, kept keyboard ram and hdd.
To do list:
Wireless not working? Heath may have a replacement AP
Upgrade Twix to Feisty! (Note that the database/apache needs to be migrated with it) (setup working cups server first)
Fix the testing motherboard, or replace it
Basket of parts needs to be labeled and tested
Recycle the laptops we don't need or can't use.
Organize shelves and cables on the floor
Replace Eazy-E
Gonna build a fedora cups/print server
Upcoming Hours:
Monday, July 16: Anthony
Wednesday, July 18: Anthony
Sunday, July 22: John
Monday, July 23: John
Wednesday, July 25: John
*Board meeting on the 25th!
Max Martin 1-5
Anthony Hamlet: 1-5
Work Done:
Tried setting up hp laserjet 4000 on pretzels, ren and cube. Came to conclusion that feisty has issues with cups over parralel port.
Disassembled old mac laptop, kept keyboard ram and hdd.
To do list:
Wireless not working? Heath may have a replacement AP
Upgrade Twix to Feisty! (Note that the database/apache needs to be migrated with it) (setup working cups server first)
Fix the testing motherboard, or replace it
Basket of parts needs to be labeled and tested
Recycle the laptops we don't need or can't use.
Organize shelves and cables on the floor
Replace Eazy-E
Gonna build a fedora cups/print server
Upcoming Hours:
Monday, July 16: Anthony
Wednesday, July 18: Anthony
Sunday, July 22: John
Monday, July 23: John
Wednesday, July 25: John
*Board meeting on the 25th!
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Meeting Report: Wednesday, July 11th
Attendance:
John Von Hollen: 5-7
Heath Tucker: 6-7
Anthony Hamlet: 5-7
Work Done:
Received a donation of 6 PCs, 2 Monitors, a Printer, and $10 from a company. Most of the parts were taken to the shed. [John, Anthony]
Last remaining "questionable" PC from the conference room checked out. [John]
Checked out the HTPC some more. Cannot get into BIOS, may need to scrap for parts. [John, Anthony]
Fixed Mac. Pulled battery on the motherboard to reset everything. [Anthony, Heath]
To do list:
Wireless not working?
Upgrade Twix to Feisty! (Note that the database/apache needs to be migrated with it)
Fix the testing motherboard, or replace it
Basket of parts needs to be labeled and tested
Recycle the laptops we don't need or can't use.
Organize shelves and cables on the floor
Replace Eazy-E
Upcoming Hours:
Sunday, July 15: Anthony
Monday, July 16: Anthony
Wednesday, July 18: Anthony
Sunday, July 22: John
Monday, July 23: John
Wednesday, July 25: John
*Board meeting on the 25th!
John Von Hollen: 5-7
Heath Tucker: 6-7
Anthony Hamlet: 5-7
Work Done:
Received a donation of 6 PCs, 2 Monitors, a Printer, and $10 from a company. Most of the parts were taken to the shed. [John, Anthony]
Last remaining "questionable" PC from the conference room checked out. [John]
Checked out the HTPC some more. Cannot get into BIOS, may need to scrap for parts. [John, Anthony]
Fixed Mac. Pulled battery on the motherboard to reset everything. [Anthony, Heath]
To do list:
Wireless not working?
Upgrade Twix to Feisty! (Note that the database/apache needs to be migrated with it)
Fix the testing motherboard, or replace it
Basket of parts needs to be labeled and tested
Recycle the laptops we don't need or can't use.
Organize shelves and cables on the floor
Replace Eazy-E
Upcoming Hours:
Sunday, July 15: Anthony
Monday, July 16: Anthony
Wednesday, July 18: Anthony
Sunday, July 22: John
Monday, July 23: John
Wednesday, July 25: John
*Board meeting on the 25th!
Monday, July 9, 2007
"Open Business Models", First Thoughts
I am about a third of the way through reading "Open Business Models" by Henry Chesbrough. It is very interesting read. It relates to many of the things I have been doing this summer.
The book talk a lot about managing intellectual property within a business environment. Chesbrough believes most businesses need to open themselves up more and create more open business models. He points out that many companies leave 90% of their I.P. unused. Very inefficient. He thinks many companies should find way to share there knowledge between each other.
At the same time Chesbrough points out that there is such a thing as being too open. He gives the example of a company that wrote an unique operating system. The company was trying to get Microsoft interested in developing software for it. But instead Microsoft took many of the ideas and released a rival OS and put them out of business.
More to come as I read...
The book talk a lot about managing intellectual property within a business environment. Chesbrough believes most businesses need to open themselves up more and create more open business models. He points out that many companies leave 90% of their I.P. unused. Very inefficient. He thinks many companies should find way to share there knowledge between each other.
At the same time Chesbrough points out that there is such a thing as being too open. He gives the example of a company that wrote an unique operating system. The company was trying to get Microsoft interested in developing software for it. But instead Microsoft took many of the ideas and released a rival OS and put them out of business.
More to come as I read...
Meeting Report: Monday, July 9th
Attendance:
John Von Hollen: 5-7:15
Heath Tucker: 5:20-7:15
Raine Miller: 6-6:30
Work Done:
Continued work on "questionable" computers in conference room. One was having issues and was scraped. Other are being labeled and set up with Edubuntu. One left to install on, it is running very slow[John]
Worked on the Mac in the Library some. Some Googling says in may a bad power supply of logic board. Heath may bring in some parts to try on Wednesday.[John, Heath]
Accepted a donation of a couple misc parts, that were mostly taken to the shed. [John]
Checked out the HTPC some. It has a Ubuntu CD stuck inside now. How do we get it to eject I wonder. It is not booting anything. [John, Heath]
Showed Raine around Free IT Athens [John, Heath, Raine]
Helped out Susanna (Common Ground worker) with some spyware issues on her laptop. [John, Heath]
To do list:
Wireless not working?
Fix the Mac in the library. Won't turn on.
Finish Checking the status of the hardware in the conference room window--
everything there is there because it's "questionable"
Upgrade Twix to Feisty! (Note that the database/apache needs to be migrated with it)
Fix the testing motherboard, or replace it
Basket of parts needs to be labeled and tested
Recycle the laptops we don't need or can't use.
Organize shelves and cables on the floor
Replace Eazy-E
Note:
I forgot to mention in yesterdays meeting report: I meet Aurthur up here on Thursday to pick up the two computers he wanted. He had volunteered here before and so he only payed for one. However, he only had $40 on him. That is currently in the secure box.
Power flashed out again today, right in the middle of an install... lovely
Upcoming Hours:
Wednesday, July 11: John
Sunday, July 15: Anthony
Monday, July 16: Anthony
Wednesday, July 18: Anthony
Sunday, July 22: John
Monday, July 23: John
Wednesday, July 25: John
*Board meeting on the 25th!
John Von Hollen: 5-7:15
Heath Tucker: 5:20-7:15
Raine Miller: 6-6:30
Work Done:
Continued work on "questionable" computers in conference room. One was having issues and was scraped. Other are being labeled and set up with Edubuntu. One left to install on, it is running very slow[John]
Worked on the Mac in the Library some. Some Googling says in may a bad power supply of logic board. Heath may bring in some parts to try on Wednesday.[John, Heath]
Accepted a donation of a couple misc parts, that were mostly taken to the shed. [John]
Checked out the HTPC some. It has a Ubuntu CD stuck inside now. How do we get it to eject I wonder. It is not booting anything. [John, Heath]
Showed Raine around Free IT Athens [John, Heath, Raine]
Helped out Susanna (Common Ground worker) with some spyware issues on her laptop. [John, Heath]
To do list:
Wireless not working?
Fix the Mac in the library. Won't turn on.
Finish Checking the status of the hardware in the conference room window--
everything there is there because it's "questionable"
Upgrade Twix to Feisty! (Note that the database/apache needs to be migrated with it)
Fix the testing motherboard, or replace it
Basket of parts needs to be labeled and tested
Recycle the laptops we don't need or can't use.
Organize shelves and cables on the floor
Replace Eazy-E
Note:
I forgot to mention in yesterdays meeting report: I meet Aurthur up here on Thursday to pick up the two computers he wanted. He had volunteered here before and so he only payed for one. However, he only had $40 on him. That is currently in the secure box.
Power flashed out again today, right in the middle of an install... lovely
Upcoming Hours:
Wednesday, July 11: John
Sunday, July 15: Anthony
Monday, July 16: Anthony
Wednesday, July 18: Anthony
Sunday, July 22: John
Monday, July 23: John
Wednesday, July 25: John
*Board meeting on the 25th!
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Meeting Report: Sunday, July 8th
Attendance:
John Von Hollen: 1-5pm
Max Martin: 1-3pm
Chris: 1-4pm
Work Done:
Showed Max around Common Ground. [John]
Replied to emails. [John]
Accepted a donation of a computer. Tried to figure out what was wrong for a while. Motherboard seemed to be bad. Parted and taken to shed. [John, Max, Chris]
Upgraded Pretzels to Feisty. [Max, John]
Check the status of the hardware in the conference room window, [Chris, John]
Held Ubuntu Georgia Loco IRC Meeting. [John]
Accepted a donation of some misc parts and an interesting old HTPC. [John]
Accepted a donation of an old but fully functional Dell 3500 Laptop. [John]
To do list:
Finish Checking the status of the hardware in the conference room window--
everything there is there because it's "questionable"
Upgrade the lab to Feisty!
Fix the testing motherboard, or replace it
Basket of parts needs to be labeled and tested
Recycle the laptops we don't need or can't use.
Create open hours calendar
Organize shelves and cables on the floor
Replace Eazy-E
Note:
The Mac in the Library does not turn on. Ask office staff if they know why.
We had a power outage that lost internet for a little while
Upcoming Hours:
Monday, July 9: John
Wednesday, July 11: John
Sunday, July 15: ?
Monday, July 16: ?
Wednesday, July 18: ?
Sunday, July 22: John
John Von Hollen: 1-5pm
Max Martin: 1-3pm
Chris: 1-4pm
Work Done:
Showed Max around Common Ground. [John]
Replied to emails. [John]
Accepted a donation of a computer. Tried to figure out what was wrong for a while. Motherboard seemed to be bad. Parted and taken to shed. [John, Max, Chris]
Upgraded Pretzels to Feisty. [Max, John]
Check the status of the hardware in the conference room window, [Chris, John]
Held Ubuntu Georgia Loco IRC Meeting. [John]
Accepted a donation of some misc parts and an interesting old HTPC. [John]
Accepted a donation of an old but fully functional Dell 3500 Laptop. [John]
To do list:
Finish Checking the status of the hardware in the conference room window--
everything there is there because it's "questionable"
Upgrade the lab to Feisty!
Fix the testing motherboard, or replace it
Basket of parts needs to be labeled and tested
Recycle the laptops we don't need or can't use.
Create open hours calendar
Organize shelves and cables on the floor
Replace Eazy-E
Note:
The Mac in the Library does not turn on. Ask office staff if they know why.
We had a power outage that lost internet for a little while
Upcoming Hours:
Monday, July 9: John
Wednesday, July 11: John
Sunday, July 15: ?
Monday, July 16: ?
Wednesday, July 18: ?
Sunday, July 22: John
Monday, July 2, 2007
Meeting Report: Monday, July 2nd
Attendance:
John Von Hollen: 5-6:30
Work Done:
Straightened up the lab from a Common Ground event yesterday. [John]
Installed Feisty on "cube" in the lab, ran updates and added "common ground user" [John]
Took a call from someone who may come in to donate some networking parts in the future [John].
Cleaned up and organized a lot of parts [John]
Took some old parts out to the shed to be recycled [John]
To do list:
Check the status of the hardware in the conference room window--
everything there is there because it's "questionable"
Upgrade the lab to Fiesty!
Fix the testing motherboard, or replace it
Basket of parts needs to be labeled and tested
Recycle the laptops we don't need or can't use.
Create open hours calendar
Organize shelves and cables on the floor
Replace Eazy-E
Upcoming Hours:
Wednesday, July 4: Closed for the 4th
Sunday, July 8: John
Monday, July 9: John
Wednesday, July 11: John
Sunday, July 15: ? (John out of town)
Monday, July 16: ? (John out of town)
Wednesday, July 15: ? (John out of town)
John Von Hollen: 5-6:30
Work Done:
Straightened up the lab from a Common Ground event yesterday. [John]
Installed Feisty on "cube" in the lab, ran updates and added "common ground user" [John]
Took a call from someone who may come in to donate some networking parts in the future [John].
Cleaned up and organized a lot of parts [John]
Took some old parts out to the shed to be recycled [John]
To do list:
Check the status of the hardware in the conference room window--
everything there is there because it's "questionable"
Upgrade the lab to Fiesty!
Fix the testing motherboard, or replace it
Basket of parts needs to be labeled and tested
Recycle the laptops we don't need or can't use.
Create open hours calendar
Organize shelves and cables on the floor
Replace Eazy-E
Upcoming Hours:
Wednesday, July 4: Closed for the 4th
Sunday, July 8: John
Monday, July 9: John
Wednesday, July 11: John
Sunday, July 15: ? (John out of town)
Monday, July 16: ? (John out of town)
Wednesday, July 15: ? (John out of town)
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Meeting Report: Sunday, July 1st
Attendance:
John Von Hollen: 1-5
Mattew: 1-5
Lauren McCall: 1:15-5
Anthony Hamlet: 2-5
Work Done:
Created Hours spreadsheet for July [John]
Answered emails from http://mothersonthemove.org/ and http://www.carolinapeace.org/ . They are interested in getting computers from the USSF that Brian is at. I told them they can take one as long as they are a non-profit and it is $60 if they want one for personal use, as per our policy. [John]
Showed Lauren around [John + Matt].
Got Lauren comfortable with ubuntu [Matt]
Worked on setting up a Computer with Edubuntu [Lauren + Matt]
Held the Ubuntu Georgia LoCo IRC meeting [John]
Entered some stuff into the database. [Lauren + Matt]
Helped out Bike Athens with some more of there database issues. [Anthony]
Cleaned out some of the old CDs. I figure we dont need 10 copies of Ubuntu 5.10 for Mac. [John]
To do list:
Check the status of the hardware in the conference room window--
everything there is there because it's "questionable"
Upgrade the lab to Fiesty!
Fix the testing motherboard, or replace it
Basket of parts needs to be labeled and tested
Recycle the laptops we don't need or can't use.
Create open hours calendar
Organize shelves and cables on the floor
Replace Eazy-E
Upcoming Hours:
Monday, July 2: John
Wednesday, July 4: Closed for the 4th?
Sunday, July 8: John
Monday, July 9: John
Wednesday, July 11: John
Sunday, July 15: ? (John out of town)
Monday, July 16: ? (John out of town)
Wednesday, July 15: ? (John out of town)
John Von Hollen: 1-5
Mattew: 1-5
Lauren McCall: 1:15-5
Anthony Hamlet: 2-5
Work Done:
Created Hours spreadsheet for July [John]
Answered emails from http://mothersonthemove.org/ and http://www.carolinapeace.org/ . They are interested in getting computers from the USSF that Brian is at. I told them they can take one as long as they are a non-profit and it is $60 if they want one for personal use, as per our policy. [John]
Showed Lauren around [John + Matt].
Got Lauren comfortable with ubuntu [Matt]
Worked on setting up a Computer with Edubuntu [Lauren + Matt]
Held the Ubuntu Georgia LoCo IRC meeting [John]
Entered some stuff into the database. [Lauren + Matt]
Helped out Bike Athens with some more of there database issues. [Anthony]
Cleaned out some of the old CDs. I figure we dont need 10 copies of Ubuntu 5.10 for Mac. [John]
To do list:
Check the status of the hardware in the conference room window--
everything there is there because it's "questionable"
Upgrade the lab to Fiesty!
Fix the testing motherboard, or replace it
Basket of parts needs to be labeled and tested
Recycle the laptops we don't need or can't use.
Create open hours calendar
Organize shelves and cables on the floor
Replace Eazy-E
Upcoming Hours:
Monday, July 2: John
Wednesday, July 4: Closed for the 4th?
Sunday, July 8: John
Monday, July 9: John
Wednesday, July 11: John
Sunday, July 15: ? (John out of town)
Monday, July 16: ? (John out of town)
Wednesday, July 15: ? (John out of town)
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