On Fri, 21 May 2004, Matt Murphy wrote: > Josh Trutwin wrote: > > > My wife works for an inner city Minneapolis public school, she would certainly welcome 5-6 of these. > > Umm, maybe I went to one of the better schools or something, but when I > was in Minneapolis public schools the computers certainly weren't this > bad! Heck I built my first P100 computer while attending southwest high > school 9 years ago! MPS may not be totally current, but I'd think > they're doing better than 8-9 years behind... I'm not sure about this situation, but every year my mom asks me what I've got for old crufty spare computer(s) I don't mind parting with, and I usually come up with something. She puts it in her classroom for her kids to use when they are done with their work or as a reward type thing. Then at the end of the year she "auctions" off a bunch of rewards to the kids and someone gets to take them home. Most of her students don't have any computer at home, so even something really old is better than nothing. There are other computer labs in the school with much more current technology in them, but you have to sign up for them, take the whole class down, etc. For 10 minutes here and there, that just doesn't work. ------------- Justin Kremer <kremer at ringworld.org> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list