Richard Seymour 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?
> 
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I've tried, unsuccessfully,to do the same thing in the Mora, MN. area.
It is a good idea and I would enjoy connecting your group to some poor
rural kids. Or perhaps connecting some poor rural kids to some poor
urban kids for the same end.