Monday, November 23, 2015
You’ve heard of “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday”. Now here comes “Giving Tuesday“, an effort to formally kick off the season of giving. Giving Tuesday was started by a New York City community organization called 92Y, which is an educational organization on 92nd Street and Lexington Street in New York City. We at Partimus focus […]
On April 28th, the Partimus crew of James Howard, Morgan Wilson and Christian Einfeldt worked to take laptops that James had prepped for installation and finished imaging the systems with the provisioning server. All the laptops were then put together with their power supplies on cart. By the end of the day between already installed […]
Monday, November 26, 2012
You’ve heard of “Black Friday” and “Cyber Monday”. Now here comes “Giving Tuesday“, an effort to formally kick off the season of giving. Giving Tuesday was started by a New York City community organization called 92Y, which is an educational organization on 92nd Street and Lexington Street in New York City. We at Partimus focus […]
Today was a really great day (Saturday 2012.8.18). Two volunteers by the name of Maestro and James Ouyang (@jyouyang) came to the Creative Arts Charter School today to help get the school ready for the start of the new school year on Monday, 2012.8.20. Together, we were able to manually install 14 of 19 notebook […]
Saturday, August 18, 2012
The school year is starting at the Creative Arts Charter School, a public charter school in SF, and so we (Partimus volunteers) will be working there tomorrow, Saturday, August 18, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 pm, at 1601 Turk Street at Pierce Street to take the first steps toward assessing the network with an eye […]
During the past 8 days, Partimus volunteers have put in 30 hours of work spread over 4 days. On Saturday 2012.7.28 and Sunday 2012.7.29, we moved about 1,000 lbs of equipment a total of 2.5 vertical miles going up and down stairs, due to the fact that 1) we lost equipment storage space at one […]
Last week, from May 7-11th, Ubuntu community members from around the world came together in Oakland for the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Partimus several representatives were able to attend, including Board Member Grant Bowman took the opportunity during the lightning talks session on Friday to present on Partimus. Full text of his presentation from his blog: […]
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Partimus would like to thank Mr. So Trinh, an IT Director at San Francisco State University for donating 10 pre-owned computers and monitors to us for our work in public schools! LCD monitors have been available to the public for a while now, but many of the poor public schools that Partimus services […]
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Today was a tiny step toward starting the new Linux lab at the Creative Arts Charter School (a public charter school) following the devastating fire of 2011.12.22. A professional moving company had placed a number of our computers into a closet in the new lab. Today, we moved 2000 lbs of computers out of the […]
The Creative Arts Charter School (CACS) is slowly digging itself out from the December 22, 2011 fire that wiped out two apartment buildings and scorched the eastern wall of the elementary school portion of CACS. The fire itself only burned the exterior eastern wall of CACS. This damage included scorching of the windows of the […]