haha I tried that last year and am trying again at my Jr. High School. The biggest problem is the state of the current US economy. No companies (generalization) are willing to donate old computers/books/[insert random thing here]. Last year I had people from Sun and Red Hat ready to send in some books and software but my proposal was never approved....this year it is approved, the school has new computers as well. But no one is ready to send stuff in.
I completely agree with your idea and have had it for a while as you hear people speak about how their childern get a good technological education (in grammer school you learn to type for 6 years; in Jr. High you learn to format word documents and in 9th grade a little BASIC so you can use excel; I dont know about Nashua High but I think they have something geered towards people wishing to be CISCO netadmins and a C++ course) while really they are just relearning stuff that is so self-explanatory its just an easy A for most people. I would think that with the technological community New Hampshire has it would be a little better than that so I decided to try and get a *nix based network to at least show what's happenning beneath a GUI. Anyway if anyone knows a company that needs to donate some old computers send me an e-mail. CmdrRoot On 21 Nov 2001 08:51:32 +0000, Mark Glassberg wrote: > A random thought on providing systems to schools and advancing Linux: If the > amount which a corporation gets as a charitable deduction, for donating its > old hardware to a school, is based on the value of the donation; then the > linux community should be able to help out both the donors and the schools > by adding the time and free software necessary to assemble the hardware into > a system with a high current market value. > > It's certainly good community service. It might also result in valuable > publicity and corporate support. And it might result in business for those > involved in installing and servicing open source systems. > > ***************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
