Join us for the followup event to NHv Software Freedom Day! The idea is simple: bring in a computer hardware/software project to hack on and ask for help and suggestions. We're not tech support; instead, we're here to support tech. It's not about fixing your computer for everyday tasks... it's about reviving dead machines, showing spare parts some TLC, and giving lonely motherboards a renewed purpose.
If this event goes well, we'll do this on a monthly or bi-weekly schedule, Sundays 11:00am - 4:00pm.
Our first Support Tech Sunday event coincides with GNU's 30th Birthday :D
We're gonna celebrate by playing with the FSF-approved, 100% free software, GNU/Linux distribution Trisquel. I'm bringing in some spare hardware, and I encourage others to do the same. If you have an old comp you're not using, bring it in and we'll try to get Trisquel running on it!
This is also an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of an educational intiative, where we set up computer labs for schools/community groups using spare hardware (I'm calling it "Project Trash to Treasure" for now). We want to implement something like this using one of these older CD images. Interest in the Trisquel Edu remix has waned in the past year or so, and it could use a shot in the arm! Let's be the ones to do it, and resurrect some "useless" hardware to boot.
Known hardware that will be here for our first Sunday event: SheevaPlug and DreamPlug plug computers, two old HP desktops, and an Asus EeePC with a broken screen.