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? > > -- > 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 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.