[vox] linux in benecia -- lunch with lugod

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@diraMAPSc.org>]

hi all,

doug barbieri and i are driving down to benecia to help this person.
essentially, he's trying to convert a microsoft only real estate office
into a linux only real estate office.  it's a good piece of advocacy.

anyway, this is worth $$$ to lugod, and i figure maybe we can make a
road trip out of it.  after helping this dude, we can all hang out for
lunch afterwards and shoot the breeze.

if anyone is interested, email me to let me know.  we'll carravan
together.  :)   don't be shy; everyone is invited.

pete


----- Forwarded message from Bradford MacLane <bmaclane@pdvinc.com> -----

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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:35:20 -0800
To: Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org>
From: Bradford MacLane <bmaclane@pdvinc.com>
Subject: Re: Linux in Benicia


Thank you for the e-mail.  Believe me, I do know that it is a volunteer 
effort and it is a great effort at that!  Let me try rephrasing the 
request.  Is there a list of consultants that would be willing to be paid 
to help get my little system up and working smoothly?

Attending another Installfest is an option certainly.  But I think the set 
up timing is getting a little more urgent.  My network is in disarray.

I am very open to suggestions.  As background, I am a commercial real 
estate appraiser.  I am thinking seriously about writing an article for our 
professional journal regarding the trials and tribulations of an appraiser 
attempting the change from Microsoft to Linux.

As an example, last week I purchased the Wordperfect office suite for 
Linux.  It turns out that the product is missing several key files (or they 
are outdated) needed for the latest version of Linux.  It took several 
calls to Corel and downloading these files to get it operating.  Now it 
operates in the root directory but not in my desktop/directory.

It is all quite a challenge - and I will see this through.  But I am also 
running a business and I need it to work now.  Consultants?

Thanks again,

Bradford MacLane



At 11:22 AM 1/30/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>bradford,
>
>lert is a volunteer effort -- i'm fairly sure that a trip to benecia
>will be out of the question for most people since we're talking about 2
>hours commute (plus a few hours for the install) for a bunch of students
>during midterm season.
>
>i'll forward your email to lert@lugod.org, but i think perhaps the best
>bet would be to attend our installfest which falls on the 3rd sunday of
>each month.  alternatively, we might be able to do the install at a
>meeting (keyword is might.  we'd need a volunteer, but this is
>reasonable, and i'm pretty sure we could swing it).  do you know which
>distro you want?
>
>pete
>
>begin Bradford MacLane <bmaclane@pdvinc.com>
>>
>> I am trying to reach the LERT group.  I need some help installing Linux 
>and
>> am very willing to make a contribution for some consulting help.  I have a
>> small office in Benicia and need help with the conversion and network 
>setup.
>>
>> Bradford MacLane
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