I would be down for that and I'm sure I can scrap together 1-2 machines
(or at least parts).<br /><br />I'll be away for a few days, but I'll be
back Thursday.<br /><br />-Joe<br /><br />> Hey guys,<br />> <br
/>> I'd love to turn this into an organized event for one of our
upcoming<br />> (post Common Lisp talk) meetings. I'm sure I'm not the
only one who has<br />> old hardware lying around that I'd love to get
rid of by can't bear the<br />> thought of perfectly decent stuff going
to waste. If we pooled our<br />> collective resources of working
machines, broken machines and spare<br />> parts I'm sure we could
assemble quite a few computers in a couple<br />> hours. And we get to
throw Linux on there and deploy them into a school<br />> --
indoctrinating the youth! Yeah! Who's in?<br />> <br />> -Tyler<br
/>> <br />> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 01:14:44PM -0400, Megan Billings
wrote:<br />>> My mother is a 5th grade teacher in a pretty tough
neighborhood in RI. <br />>> Her<br />>> school is WAY
underfunded and she currently has zero functioning<br />>>
computers<br />>> for her kids to use. Keep in mind that these are
kids who are all on<br />>> free<br />>> lunch programs and
certainly do not have computers at home. <br />>> Unfortunately<br
/>>> the budget cuts also eviscerated any semblance of IT for the
schools<br />>> computers as well so there is very little chance of
any broken systems<br />>> getting fixed. I was wondering if any
DC401ers had any old systems<br />>> laying<br />>> around
that they would be willing to donate (old monitors would be<br />>>
welcome<br />>> also). I was planning on installing linux on them
(maybe Edbuntu?<br />>> Suggestions?). The kids really only need
basic web surfing and word<br />>> processing capabilities but this
would go a long way towards keeping<br />>> them<br />>>
technologically up to date with their more fortunate peers. I will try<br
/>>> to<br />>> get tax vouchers for anyone who donates a
system but I have never done<br />>> this<br />>> so I'm not
sure how they value the systems. Additionally, if anyone<br />>>
has<br />>> any time or expertise that they would be willing to give
to this little<br />>> project they will be richly compensated in
pizza and beer.<br />>> Thanks!<br />>> -Megan<br />> <br
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