[TriLUG] Donations for Eagle Scout Project

[Reginald Reed]

Ian,

You should contact the Triangle United Way's "TEAMing for Technology"
group.  They have a program that refurbishes computers that are donated
by individuals and companies to distribute to local non-profits.
Volunteers refurbish the machines, so it would be a great opportunity
for the scouts to donate time fixing the machines that you'd probably be
able to take to distribute to the needy.

Contact them at t4t at lb.bcentral.com, tell them Reggie sent you :)

--Reggie

On Thursday, February 13, 2003 5:17 PM:, trilug-admin at trilug.org wrote:
> I am currently a Life Scout in my troop and am trying to come up with
> a service project, and was wondering what your (everyone's) opinions
> were on this: Set up as many computers as possible, running linux, to
> give to poor people in the community for basic email and internet. I
> am going to talk to a local isp about getting dial-up access for the
> people at a reduced rate. 
> 
> If this sounds like a sane idea, I would also really appreciate
> donations of any computers, monitors, anything I could use to get this
> to work. All the computers need to be able to do is send e-mail and
> get on the internet (not even flash or anything fancy, just basic net
> stuff) 
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Ian Meyer
> ianmeyer at mac.com
> 
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