[sclug] Linux help needed @ fortnightly workshops & summer festival

[Tom Chance]

Hello,

February last year I started some faltering fortnightly arts workshops in the 
Rising Sun arts centre, with six machines running Kubuntu Linux at the heart 
of the operation. It stalled because of a lack of time and money to get it 
going.

Well now the workshops are back and running regular as clockwork, being run by 
Remix Reading's successor - RAVE. They're current "analogue", in that the 
computers are dormant and they're based around media like good old fashioned 
instruments, graffiti and dance. They're being funded by income from parties 
and gigs so the money is no longer a worry.


But I no longer live in Reading, and they need help with the Linux boxes!


If you could spare a Saturday or two to go in and fix them up, help them learn 
how to use Kubuntu and some audio production software, and get the networking 
sorted, RAVE and I would be eternally grateful!

The next workshop is on Sat 21st April from midday, and every fortnight 
thereafter.


The work that needs doing:
- They all run Kubuntu Breezy (from memory) and could do with an upgrade to 
feisty (or perhaps edgy to be conservative)
- They all need the audio production software (so audacity & jokosher for 
beginners, jack stuff & ladspa stuff & ardour for advanced)
- There is an open wifi network in the building, but none of the machines have 
wifi capability. When I ran the shop I just connected my laptop and networked 
them through there, but RAVE are going to buy a PCI wifi card so it will need 
installing and then the other computers will need to be configured to route 
through it (there's a hub and lots of CAT5 cables).


Is anyone interested? It would be a good opportunity for SCLUG to do some 
semi-regular meetings in Reading. Oh, and they're putting on a summer 
festival that SCLUG could have a presence at:
http://www.mosaicfestival.com/

Kind regards,
Tom

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