Call for salvaged hardware!

[Matt Price]

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 13:09 -0500, bob 295 wrote:
> You might try this group.
> 
> http://www.rcto.ca/Default.aspx
> 
> I tried unsuccessfully a number of years back to get this group interested in 
> Linux.
> 
i'll do that.  thanks for the suggestion!
matt

> bob
> 
> 
> On Monday 07 December 2009 12:52 pm, Matt Price wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > some of you may remember that years ago I taught a linux-focussed "build
> > your own computer" course using salvaged hardware. I'm reviving this
> > course in the new year at a downtown elementary school, and am looking
> > for parts for 15 or 16 systems that school kids will build up, install
> > ubuntu on, and learn to use.  If it's successful, I'm hoping to expand
> > the program out into a bunch of neighbourhood schools, and maybe get a
> > kind of computer club going where kids learn a little bit of programming
> > and systems administrations.
> >
> > Anyway, that said:  i thought I had a line on a substantial supply, but
> > my source has fallen through.  So I'm putting out a general plea for
> > hardware -- boxes, parts, monitors, keyboards, mice, etc...  Meanwhile
> > I'll keep plying my other connections as well.
> >
> > As always, thank you in advance to the list!  you guys rock,
> >
> > Matt
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Matt Price
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