Re: [Libreplanet-us-wa] Hardware Freedom Day

[elcaseti .]

Thanks, Lee.  Yes, We could definitely use more help getting FGSea running. 

Also, we're not too familiar with installing coreboot, but would like to learn how to do that.  Our focus is on old, donated Desktop PCs.  My understanding is that very few laptop mobos will accept Coreboot, but many dektop mobos will.

Cheers,

Elcaset

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Blibbet <address@hidden> wrote:

On 2/23/14 3:19 PM, Alex Jordan wrote:

Hardware Freedom Day is in 20 days[1]. Do we want to do something?

  [1]: http://pockey.dao2.com/2014/02/hardware-freedom-day-celebrations-15-march-2014/

Well, if nobody cares to start on their Novenas yet, we can wait a few months, apparently in a few months it'll be more usable, anyway. :-)

If someone wants to do something locally on Hardware Freedom Day, they can join FreeGeek Seattle and volunteer at their Saturday Workshops, in the South Seattle area.

FreeGeek Seattle volunteers help people refurbish PCs with Linux -- and currently investigating how to also upgrade firmware with CoreBoot, on some systems -- and teach them to use Linux.

FreeGeek is huge in Portland, but still pretty small in Seattle, it needs another few volunteers to really get moving. Please consider helping assemble hardware at FreeGeek on Hardware Freedom Day (and beyond).

In addition to volunteers who know Linux and hardware, FreeGeek Seattle could also could use hardware donations.

http://freegeekseattle.org/
mailto:freegeek-seattle+address@hidden

Thanks,
Lee

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