Coordinator's report for August-October 2007
Coordinators Report - August – October
General
It has been a long time since I have put together a report . It has been a fairly hectic past few months and we have had less people to help with the load.
A lot of things have happened, including Software Freedom Day. We've built some computers for a group in NSW, but these are yet to be shipped.
We've agreed to do a project for GHD in Shepparton, we are currently finalising the build for this – and trying to clone it. There is a great report about the Congolese Shepparton Settlement – see it at http://eccv.org.au/doc/CongolesePilotProject.pdf
Our Work for the Dole project is going well, we have many keen participants. We have a full project.
Just this week we appeared in an Age article. The article focussed on our work in developing countries. We have had a good response to it.
User Support & Training
Lately there have been a number of problems occurring. ICEauthority problems and log problems. One of our users has been back 4! times because of it. Other serious problems include HPLIP log files and Gconf log files. For users with newer systems log files are no longer being written.
There have also been a number of internet set ups and printer configurations. A mysterious udev error is also causing problems. To date no one has been able to work this out.
Thanks to Darce and our assistant trainers we are able to run training every fortnight. Aside from the usual problems of low turn outs, training has been going well.
Computers Out
| Month | No. Computers | Groups | Shop |
| January | 38 |
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1 |
| February | 56 |
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6 |
| March | 72 | 1 Cameroon Association, 13 to Jobco | 1 |
| April | 53 | 10 VCSN, 1 Somali Women's Development Association | 1 |
| May | 52 |
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1 |
| June | 55 | 1 Global Trade Watch, 13 Jobco | 1 |
| July | 36 | 4 VCSN |
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| August | 36 | 2 CMS, 1 Darebin, 1 Vic Artists Society |
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| September | 52 | 21 SFD, 2 Berwick Seniors | 5 |
| October | 28 TD | 1 raffle, 14 Mindaribba Aboriginal Land Council |
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Total: 478 TD (Oct 23 TD) (last year we were at 364 at the end of October) This represents a huge increase of 114 computers.
Donations
Good donations from GHD, ARUP, DSE, Captain Snooze, MECU. City Pacific Treasury, Crisis Support, Care Connect and more. Also from many individuals.
Volunteers
Big welcome to Bianca and Alex.
We wish Adam all the best in Canberra and thank him for all of his help.
Finance
Income:
July = 6743.57
Aug = 9759.44
Sep = 5148.06 + Grants of 24,814.14 (WFD and SFD)
Oct= 6736.53 TD
Bank Balances:
Westpac = $1203.30
ING = $62, 485.88
Total = $63,689.18
Date: 23/10/07 - Since writing this report we have given out a further 50 odd computers...taking us to over 500 for the year.
