“Recently my friend and Linux mentor, Pat Davis, initiated a
search for a service opportunity involving Linux and invited me
along. We were both interested in finding a place to volunteer, and
a project where we could learn some new things along the
way.“
“Having decided that we wanted to have a mission, it didn’t take
long to find one. We talked to some committee chairpersons at our
church, and they pointed us to a local social services facility in
the same town, Davidson, NC, called the Ada Jenkins Center.”
“We learned there was a computer lab of some kind that had been
created this fall, and that there was probably a need either for
network support, applications instructors or both. That’s all we
knew going in, but it sounded promising. We expected to find a
variety of older, donated hardware, possibly networked, but maybe
not. We didn’t know about printers or other peripherals. We did
have confidence Linux would be welcome.”