Partimus volunteers, lead by James Howard, have done a considerable amount of work at two public charter schools in Oakland, California, for the 2012 – 2013 school year. This blog post is the first of several that we will put up about this work. Since most of the work has been done by James Howard, […]
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 […]
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Partimus co-founder Maile Urbancic has outdone herself again. As we blogged about here, Boutique Academia, a small company run by Partimus co-founder Maile Urbancic, has created some beautiful gold-colored and silver-colored earrings created in the shape of the Ubuntu human family logo. Now, she has added gold-colored and silver-colored rhodium necklaces with the Ubuntu theme. […]
Saturday, October 6, 2012
In August, Beth Lynn Eicher sent an invitation to Partimus board members who were interested in joining her with a team from Computer Reach in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on a trip to Ghana to deploy 100 computers running Edubuntu to schools and community centers. Elizabeth Krumbach volunteered to participate and the two of them have been […]
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Today was a very huge day for Partimus the two of the schools that we serve, the ASCEND school in Oakland, and the Prescott school in Oakland, which you can also read about here. These schools are both part of the Oakland public school district, but these schools stand out in their reputation for academic […]
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Several months ago James Tatum donated a Raspberry Pi to Partimus to use or sell as a fundraiser. This past week we were finally able to take the time to organize a silent auction at a Bay Area Linux Users Group meeting. Photo by Sameer Verma There were 3 bidders in the auction, all of […]
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 […]
Partimus has received a donation of 19 notebook computers and two desktop computers with flat screen monitors for placement in underprivileged public schools! Yay! Thanks to Intel for donating these computers; thanks to Steve Camuti of Intuit for carrying the ball inside Intuit to make this happen; and thanks to Tom Stevenson of Arrow-Intechra for […]