On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 03:00:57PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
On 27-Oct-04 Jonathan McDowell wrote:
Another meeting suggestion:
How about a kit swap meet? Everyone brings their old junk they want to get rid of for free and we bring some install CDs too perhaps and either we just swap junk or we combine it up to build full machines that we can then give to charity or people can take away?
A propos: What's a good way to give old kit away to charity?
I figure that there are plenty of kids at school, college who want to play with Linux but don't have a spare computer to install/dual boot on etc. and can't afford to find 50 quid to buy a secondhand machine.
I intend to give away a couple of old machines via Alug to the best "sob story" I get within a week of when I post the offer to the list, if it turns out that nobody with a "need" for them then I will give them away to whoever for a few beers or whatever.
Of course when I give them away they will have a nice new shiny configuration of Debian or similar setup for them.
Of course, we could setup a "Free Linux Computer" campaign for people and do this to provide new users with old machines running Linux so they can play around with them.
Adam