you can count me in for some web development etc. as well ___________________________________ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer www.cravingthesoulfood.com www.cravingthesoulfood.org
your old road is rapidly aging please get out of the way if you can't lend a hand for the times they are a changing - bob dylan ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 4:59 PM Subject: Re: Computers for Kids, slightly off topic | On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 14:14, KnowHow Tech Support wrote: | > I am thinking about starting a non profit agency (501) status that will | > accept donated computers from firms and individuals, and rebuild them and | > give them to children and schools that are without computers. I thought I | > would look for feedback from the list on this. Does anyone know of anyone | > that is doing such a thing? What are your ideas? | > | > I want to give back to children as much as possible, especially kids | > without computers. In my opinion a child without a computer is set behind | > in the educaiton system. Naturally they would all have free software | > installed. I was just hoping for a little feedback on the idea. | > | | Great Idea. There are probably organizations, United Way comes to | mind, that would donate the resources to identify those in need and | distribute the boxes. One thing I can see is that shipping would get to | be a big deal and the availibility of monitors will also be a problem. | Computers are going to be easy I bet. | | Now if we could get someone to donate ISP services we would be really | jammin'. | | Contact me off list if you like. This is a big, make that HUGE job that | will take significant resources to do on any scale, but a laudable | effort to try and get started IMHO. Maybe get the politicians involved | for some $? I know some folks in the community service orgs around | Tulsa and would be willing to talk to them if you like. | | Bret | | | | _______________________________________________ | Redhat-list mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list | _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
