Not necessarily for Thomas alone.
Thomas, besides the folks reading this here on the BerkeleyLUG mailing-list, perhaps you(Thomas), Peter M, and others can separately reach more persons via
_other_ online venues to recruit hands-on assistance and advice for making usable the Fixit-Sudoroom Chromebooks as well, yes?
(assuming of course you/Peter/other SRers haven't
already done so for this very Tuesday's Hardware Hack Night and Fixit Clinic of 2023-12-19)
Sudo Room's Contact webpage alone
https://sudoroom.org/contact displays several ways of carrying out recruitment announcements and discussion
for this and other projects, including
- its Discuss list
http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss - its Twitter feed
http://twitter.com/sudoroom - its IRC #sudoroom on libera.chat
http://sudoroom.org/chat Besides these, doesn't Sudo Room at least also have a subscribable presence on Slack
https://slack.com/ that you/Peter/other-SRers can
take advantage of for the project's recruitment purposes?
Previously...
> The Chromebooks are not mine. Well they are for anyone that wants one.
> There are like 50+ at Sudoroom right now. Peter got them from the Fremont school
> district as they were about to be e-wasted.
> The Fixit-Sudoroom project is to make these usable even though the ChromeOS
> on them is EOL.
> Specs: These are Intel cpu with 4GB ram but only 16GB storage (EMMC)
> It is the 16GB that causes issue. After installing software and updating the storage is
> full. Some people just boot off USB or SDcard.
> Looking for a distro that lives happily in 16GB and is Linux-noobie friendly.
> I am well aware of the Tuesday hack night. I am there most every week.
> Thomas
>> On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 8:52 PM ace36 <
acohen36@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 11:59 AM tom r lopes <
tomrlopes@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Tomorrow at SudoRoom 11am to 2pm.
> >> My probably agenda will be to work on the pole of Chromebooks. Bypassing the enterprise
> >> enrollment and installing Linux. Not sure what distro to use as these are limited machines.
> >> 4gb ram but only 16gb storage. I've tried Lubuntu but it fills storage real quick.
> >> Others have tried more minimal distros (AntiX?) and they have trouble with hardware drivers.
> >> Aaron, maybe you can take a look. Free Chromebook for you.
> >> As always you are welcome to work on your own projects.
>> No "Free Chromebook" for this one, thanks! :-)
>> Thomas, just throwing this idea out there; How about both giving-away
>> the Chromebook +and+ getting help with the other Chromebooks at one of
>> Sudo Room's upcoming Tuesday Hardware Hacking Night?
>> SudoRoom IS still having these in conjunction with Peter Mui's Fixit Clinic, yes??
>> Cannot atttend Tue's HW event(s) myself, but maybe you(Thomas) and others reading this can?
>> Anyways, just an idea here....
>> ...
Thomas and Peter,
Best of success with your/SR's Chromebooks Project recruitment! :-)
Seasonal Cheers,
-Aaron
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