Linux Users' Group of Davis - "LERT: Linux Emergency Response Team"

LERT: Linux Emergency Response Team


LERT service has ended

The Linux Users' Group of Davis' Linux Emergency Response Team was a volunteer-based service where a club member would travel to your home or workplace and install or fix your Linux installation. It was made available for people with emergency problems who could not wait until our next Installfest.

Due to dis-use, lack of a coordinator, and liability and tax-related concerns, we decided to end the service in February 2011 (see officer's meeting minutes).

If you need Linux- or computer-related help, we still provide the following free services, where you can get help from volunteers:

History

Early in LUGOD's history, Peter Jay Salzman (one of the club's co-founders) started a subgroup within LUGOD named LERT -- The Linux Emergency Response Team. Originally, it was a play on "CERT", the so-called computer security experts from Carnegie Mellon University. It was goofy enough to keep. :-) In October 2001, Henry House took over as the new coordinator (dispatch) for LERT.


LUGOD: PO Box 1336, Davis, CA 95617

URL: http://www.lugod.org/projects/lert/index.php
Last updated: 2011 Feb 04 14:37