One interesting source might be companies who have tutorial stations at conferences. The laptops/chromebooks used are often raffled off after roughly 10 shows or so. It might be feasible to divert them to intern use instead.
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 3:55 PM Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote: > Sage said at the top of this thread that the source of funds are off > topic. I, for example, have contacts at Lenovo. Others may have other > sources. > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2019, 3:54 PM Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 6/30/2019 12:59 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > > I would prefer individual "Does this intern need a build-capable > > > laptop?" to a poll. The problem with a poll is that if most interns > > > either have good internet access at their dorm or safe travel from > > > college to dorm, a poll will say laptop-as-terminal is fine, and that > > > will exclude some people. > > > > > > For GSOC excluding outliers may not be that much of a problem. It > > > seems worse to me when the main objective is diversity and inclusion. > > > > Well the more I think about it, there is no budget for the ASF to > > provide *any* laptops so the whole discussion is a bit of a waste of > > time right now. > > > > -- > > Kevin A. McGrail > > Member, Apache Software Foundation > > Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project > > https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 > > > > >
