I to would be insterested, and from the sounds of it we have a good group and a starting collection of hardware. But it also sounds like we need space. Long term storage of parts with power to build and test the componants/systems. Anyone know of any groups that may have space and would be willing to "Host" the activities. I know TCfreenet has something like this going with some old terminals they were given. Anyone want to wear a organizer hat to check this out? Brad Timm -----Original Message----- From: Amy Tanner [mailto:atebbe at real-time.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 11:26 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] FreeGeek I'd be willing to help with this. There's a TCLUG meeting 5/5 - why not have anyone interested get together after the meeting to discuss? On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:51:43AM -0700, Richard Seymour (rseymour at anarchysoftware.com) wrote: > I used to come to tclug meetings and hang out on this list before I > moved out here to Oregon. > > Since moving out here, I've gotten involved with this interesting > project where we take people's old junky computers, sort through them, > and assemble useful boxes. Then we install them with Linux and some > simple applications (word processer, browser, etc.) and give them away > to people who need computers. The people who adopt the computers earn > the box by volunteering in the process, so there's an educational > component as well. What we don't use gets pulled into components and > recycled, so there's an environmental component in the mix too. > > More info at: http://www.freegeek.org > > This has been a very successful project out here. We've got a waiting > list of ~200 people who want to volunteer. (Many of them don't even want > a box in exchange.) We've recycled >17 tons of stuff. And we've given > away hundreds of boxes since September when we opened. We've also made > plenty of mistakes, and have worked like crazy on the whole idea. > > I'm going to be back in Mpls/St Paul from May 3-17 visiting friends, and > I wondered is anyone at TCLUG interested in getting together for an > informal chat about the project? > > > -- > Richard Seymour : Anarchy Software, Inc. > - * - - * - - - * -+- * - - - * - - * - > `°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°' > `°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º° > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Amy Tanner Voice: 952.943.8700 Real Time Enterprises, Inc. Fax: 952.943.8500 amy at real-time.com http://www.real-time.com GPG Fingerprint: DAC7 E1B2 80D9 3099 1A20 0817 2DFE 5086 81B3 5466 _______________________________________________ tclug-list mailing list tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list