I would be interested, and may have some older boxes to donate - not sure if they'll work, but.... On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Jesse Erdmann wrote: > Wow! I've been thinking about trying to do something like this for a > while now. I'm certainly interested. Anyone else out there have an > interest in trying to do something like this? > > 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 > > -- Imagination is intelligence having fun... e-mail: kethry at winternet.com URL: http://WWW.winternet.com/~kethry/index.html