[ale] GEEKS galore spread it out to your respective groups and anywhere else you can think of

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Fri Sep 16 08:52:25 EDT 2005


Does this go on all weekend 24x7?  Where is it located at.  I've not
heard of the Galleria Parkway.  Where is that at?

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 08:33 -0400, Brian Whigham wrote:
> WEEKEND;
> 
> There is a group of GEEKS, yup true blue computer geeks from all walks
> of life, as geekie as they come, members of Atlanta Linux User Group,
> Atlanta Asterisk are just a few of the numerous Atlanta user groups that
> have come together to help.
> 
> After work and on weekends they go to the 14th floor of Galleria
> Parkway. They look through donated equipment, pick a few of the choicest
> pieces and make it work and then someone else will pack it on pallets.
> Back and forth to the donations of computer equipment that have been
> gathered over the last few weeks by even more volunteers
> 
> They are going to have sprint this weekend, a sprint for a geek has
> nothing to do with running, it is when a bunch of the geeks get together
> and do something BIG,  it has to do with strutting their stuff, how
> fast, how different, how compact the code. It really has to do with
> programming and setting up equipment. Braggin rights  
> 
> This weekend will be one of the biggest, even geeks from out of town are
> coming in. It goes 24/7 Geeks from all the Atlanta User Groups and some
> that aren't in a user groups will be there.  
> 
> They went into what is called the corporate computer graveyards where
> corporate America sends old computer equipment to die. This weekend they
> are going to see how much equipment they can build out. Why are they
> building it, not because it's there to do, not because they have nothing
> to do this weekend. They are building it out for the thousands of
> machines that were destroyed in Hurricane Katrina.  
> 
> Once built it will be loaded on pallets, then on to trucks and then
> taken to the Volunteers in the disaster zone.  It should be a truly
> wondrous event  ..... if you are a geek.
> 
> Any geek with a win2000 or better Laptop is welcome to come down and
> strut their stuff, They get to keep their Laptop, just need it to do
> some configuring.  Coffee, Drinks, and the game will be on. 
> 
> For more information Contact
> 
> Bill.learning at verso.com
> 
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