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History

April 2002

TechServ becomes a recognized student organization at Drexel University. Amy Galabinski came up with the original idea for the organization and acted as president. Marc Blumberg joined as the Treasurer.

September 2002

Zenko Klapko came to the first meeting of the Fall term and was granted the position of Secretary. William Morgan also made his first appearance that night. Several other students were in attendance and meeting minutes were taken.

October 2002

Refurbishment meetings were held in the bottom of CAT, room 0075, sharing the space with a robotics lab. With donations from Drexel's Armory and others the space soon became cramped.

November 2002

Amy finishes a refurbished computer and makes the first donation to an elderly woman.

January 2003

With much regret the Professor of the robotics lab evicts TechServ's refurbishment center. Amy with the help of Paula King secured an office in MacAlister Hall, room 3013 and a refurbishment center in the basement, room 0020.

...Several years undocumented, during which:

• We move out of the office and into 0020 exclusively
• Dusers ceases to exist, and we take over the last of their assets, including
DNS names
• We acquire a Dell PowerEdge server as a donation from the USGA, with the condition that we use it to host websites for other student organizations. It replaces the old ANS, and runs Gentoo.
• Zenko is elected president

2005-2007

Jon Max-Sohmer is elected president, replacing former president Zenko B. Klapko. David Korth joined and was soon chosen as a sysadmin for his mad linux skillz. TechServ makes several donations, including one to Rhoads Elementary School and another to Powel Elementary. A large donations of Pentium 4 computers is received from Upenn SEAS, courtesy of VP Gordon Dexter's boss. Member Smoky donates a 4 heavy-duty chrome shelving units, which make for more space, and some attempts were made to rearrange the room for better efficiency.

Spring 2008

Gordon is elected president, Jon became VP. The aging Dell PowerEdge server that was serving as Hellfire was replaced in spring 2008 with a custom-built, 2TB, 8GB, 8CPU powerhouse. 2 terabytes should be enough for anybody. Unless we start mirroring Ubuntu, which should happen this Fall. We also got a tool chest, reorganized the room several times, to little effect, and managed to acquire a huge and almost-perfectly-working Lexmark C912 printer. 10 dual PIII computers are donated to a community center. The first TechServ Smash Bros. Brawl tournament is held, with great success.

Fall 2008

Dan Shick is elected treasurer. A donation of historical computers is made to the MESS project. A change to the constitution is proposed, in which we decrease the role of education and officially acknowledge our support of FOSS (free/open-source software). Gordon rediscovers this history file and attempts to update it, and fill in blank spaces from memory.

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