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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You've hit on something that many different
organizations have tried to do in the past....here's what we were
doing....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I HAD a warehouse are to store stuff while a small
crew of students restored/scavenged to make some good machines....they were then
put into K-12 libraries as netware catalog stations...worked fine as dos
workstations....we also did some machines with telnet/web/etc on them with old
windows and those also worked fine....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>then uh took away my storage area and thusly the
program died....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The rules that we have to work under
are:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- wait forever for the property management folks to
allow us to dispose of the computers on inventory.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- give the ITS organization first dibs</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- store the stuff as long as it takes, but now no
storage</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- finally give really old stuff away</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We are now disposing of P120's and P200's which are
mightly fine linux terminals....sooooo if someone else has the energy to work
with me on this kind of stuff...I'll extend feelers out out again for people
doing disposals of low end pentium class machines....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So....am I to understand you're stepping up to the
plate?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/brian chee</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>University of Hawaii ICS Dept<BR>Advanced Network Computing Lab<BR>1680
East West Road, POST rm 311<BR>Honolulu, HI 96822<BR>808-956-5797 voice,
808-956-5175 fax<BR></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=sctinc@flex.com href="mailto:sctinc@flex.com">R. Scott Belford</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=luau@videl.ics.hawaii.edu
href="mailto:luau@videl.ics.hawaii.edu">luau@videl.ics.hawaii.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 25, 2002 6:09
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [luau] A Mission For Luau</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Several weeks ago I spoke with Jon Fujiwara at the University
of Hawaii's College of Business about taking all the computers they trash and
doing something with them. The idea came from observing this heap of hardware
that sat under a staircase for weeks while everything good was pilfered.
Eventually it was all trashed. I am convinced that a lot of that could have
been used. Jon tells me that the few charities who accept hardware only want
stuff "fast" enough to run windows. This leaves a lot of "trash". Charles
described to me another pile of pc's outside of UH's Physics department. I
think that if we want to positively influence the community's impression of
Linux/*bsd, the conversion of old PC's for the poor and disenfranchised (of
which we have much in Hawaii) should become our mission. It would create great
press for linux in general, and it would generate networking opportunities for
you guys who want it. Perhaps a non-profit company could be created to
facilitate this. I have a second phone line that could be used to field
interested calls. I am sure that we all have space to store some hardware; I
have a large garage I can donate. You each could help hunt down "junk" from
our local universities, etc.<BR><BR>Every day there is good stuff going to
waste here. There is a tremendous digital divide on the islands. I would
imaging many of Sandi and Dustin's neighbors in the Kahaluu area could
benefit. There are churches, senior citizens, etc., that are waiting for your
efforts and creativity. We as the local linux community can do something about
this that demonstrates our capacity to affect real social change with this
open source linux thing.<BR><BR>I have been waiting for when I had time to
delve into this to post it to the group. The post below that I saw on Slashdot
is inspiring. Here in the land of Aloha we can do something special. Let's
find a way.
<BR><BR><BR>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/25/0515220&mode=flat&tid=99<BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman><?bigger><?bigger>An
Anonymous Coward writes <I>"Out in Oakland, CA a group is <U><?color><?param 0000,6666,6666>taking donated PC's and breathing new life
into them with Linux<?/color></U>. They turn around and donate the computers
to schools, build POVRAY render farms (with MOSIX) and generally promote
Linux."</I>
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