I am certianly interested. I am moving from boston to minneapolis july 1st, and am very interested in this idea. I have been holding off on starting something myself latley (busy getting ready to move, and planning a wedding) I have for awhile now, been looking to find some way to volunteer my computer skills/knowledge back to the comminity, and had since decided that the best way would be to get hardware donated, recycle it, put linux on it, and donate it to not for profits, womens shelters, community centers.... I also am sitting on a rather large server for myself, that isint doing much, and want to try and use that also. For this, i have decdied that i want to offer these groups access to services of phpgroupware or something similar (email, calendars, file storage...) So, this said, i am ver interested in meeting with you, and being actively involved in a project like it. I have already dont some work looking at how to start a not-for-profit in MN, and am interested in any help that can be given there. My luck has it, that i wont be in Minneapolis during that time, but I would still love to hear what is going on, and to help get something off the ground. thanks, this is exciting! duncan On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Richard Seymour wrote: > I used to come to tclug meetings and hang out on this list before I > moved out here to Oregon. > > Since moving out here, I've gotten involved with this interesting > project where we take people's old junky computers, sort through them, > and assemble useful boxes. Then we install them with Linux and some > simple applications (word processer, browser, etc.) and give them away > to people who need computers. The people who adopt the computers earn > the box by volunteering in the process, so there's an educational > component as well. What we don't use gets pulled into components and > recycled, so there's an environmental component in the mix too. > > More info at: http://www.freegeek.org > > This has been a very successful project out here. We've got a waiting > list of ~200 people who want to volunteer. (Many of them don't even want > a box in exchange.) We've recycled >17 tons of stuff. And we've given > away hundreds of boxes since September when we opened. We've also made > plenty of mistakes, and have worked like crazy on the whole idea. > > I'm going to be back in Mpls/St Paul from May 3-17 visiting friends, and > I wondered is anyone at TCLUG interested in getting together for an > informal chat about the project? > > > -- || || || || || || duncan shannon duncan at sodatrain.com