NO evacuee help

[Bryan.ONeal at asu.edu]

If there is need for volunteers to get them up on boxes
It may be hard to get computer donations out of ASU, since the LUG members =
are
often starving student looking for donations, and the ASU administration wo=
uld
rather pay some one to toss an old computer in a land fill before they woul=
d
let it be donated.  But for volunteers, I am sure we can raise several tech
savvy bodies.
=20
Keep me informed :)


On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, der.hans wrote:

> Am 06. Sep, 2005 schw=E4tzte der.hans so:
>=20
> moin, moin,
>=20
> it looks like FEMA might be paying a contractor to take care of this. I
> will send more info as I have it.
>=20
> Thanks for the offers to help!
>=20
> ciao,
>=20
> der.hans
>=20
> > moin, moin,
> >
> > the state is putting evacuees up at the coliseum/fairgrounds. They will
> > likely be there for a month ( longer at other locations ). They do have
> > cell phones, but do not have Net connectivity.
> >
> > I have approached the state about setting up a few boxen for the evacue=
es
> > to use for email and resumes.
> >
> > The IT department is interested in assistance in getting the evacuees
> > setup with Net access.
> >
> > I already have a few volunteers for setting up the network.
> >
> > We might be able to get boxen from STRuT, but we won't know until
> > tomorrow. If that falls through I'll likely need help getting donations
> > that we can setup in the next few days.
> >
> > I would like to say this is a PLUG effort ( most everyone involved thus
> > far is from PLUG ). Is that cool with everyone?
> >
> > If this goes well we might be asked to do the same thing in Tucson and
> > maybe at ASU as well.
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
> >
>=20
> --=20
> #  https://www.LuftHans.com/
> #  "I have faith in debian-legal." -- Ted Gould
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change  you mail settings:
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>=20