[Novalug] LINUX MINT REPOSITORY

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Thu Sep 25 17:46:50 EDT 2014


OK Luggers... You are a chatty bunch, usually.

Comments? Personally I think this is a great idea....

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Miles D. Oliver <miles.d.oliver@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Novaluggers,
>
> I wondered what I could do to help out this project, my time is very
> limited but I felt I had to do something. So I came up with a T-Shirt
> fundraiser to help get some cash together for the 1TB drives that are
> needed to further the project.
>
> After my small run of Polo shirts  we batted around a few ideas about
> T-shirts and many offered suggestions but it never really went anywhere.
> So, enter,
>
> http://teespring.com/novalug_hd
>
> I put together the simple 'TUX' logo on the front, and on the back, "10am
> isn't too early for open source!", another larger Tu
>
> I put together 8 types of offerings  4 types and 2 colors,, Red and Royal
> Blue
>
> Regular Tee - $28.00
> Long sleeve - $28.00
> Hoodie - $44.00
> Womens Tee $32.00
>
> I chose these prices to raise between $5-10 per shirt sold for the hard
> drives.  Of course the more that sell the more that will go to the project.
>
> There will be a complete and total accounting of moneys and the donation
> will come from Novalug, or .
>
> I placed a modest goal of 40 and bought 5 myself to give to friends to
> start it off so we only need 35 more to meet the goal
> to get them printed.
>
> The campaign will run for 10 days, ending on Oct 5 with 10-14days for
> processing and shipping.  I need mine for Ohio Linux Fest at the end of
> next month.
>
> So step up and help Denny get the hard drives and show your support for
> his efforts.    There has to be at least 35 people out there on the list
> that would want one.
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 5:13 PM, greg pryzby via Novalug <
> novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
>
>> Adding mailing list....
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Denny Baumann <a4s4evr@comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Greg,
>> >
>> > As you know, we are still working on "Internet in a box".  On of the
>> > issues that needs a solution is to find a SINGLE REPOSITORY for all of
>> the
>> > Educational Software which can be downloaded via "software manager".
>> You
>> > may also recall that Braddock's version of IIAB had a much larger search
>> > capability for Ubuntu software.  We not only need to refine this to
>> Linux
>> > Mint, but want to limit it to the Educational Software only.   Our hope
>> is
>> > to place this "Educational Repository" on IIAB and then amend the
>> Package
>> > Manager so that it will go to IIAB for what ever educational software is
>> > requested by the school.
>> >
>> > Can you either shed some light on this subject or point me in the right
>> > direction for a solution.
>> >
>> > I'm leaving for Haiti in a couple of weeks and taking our version of
>> IIAB
>> > along with me to demonstrate it at several schools.  While we're far
>> from
>> > producing a final product, the response so far has been overwhelmingly
>> > positive, both from school with NO INTERNET connection and from those
>> who
>> > are getting killed by the cost of their connection.
>> >
>> > I look forward to your advice.
>> >
>> > Denny
>> >
>> > p.s.  Feel free to put this on the blog if you think someone else might
>> be
>> > able to help.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
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