Hey all...
Thanks for the feedback and thoughts! :)
There was some really good food for thought there.
I'm not going to respond to most of the points because it would be
nothing more than a troll fest. The points were well made.
My motivations are simple.
I'm trying to think of different ways to empower the kids and empower
all of us to do more for Linux in OUR community.
This was nothing more and nothing less than another idea.
I'm already empowering kids in our community by doing a weekly lesson.
A bunch of you have team in to do more by giving monitors and other
computer hardware over summer.
In the past I found that I frustrated people by not creating enough ways
for them to support projects when I had the ability to. I choose not to
make that mistake again.
Cheers Don
Don Gould wrote:
I did a quick poll of the LES kids today and discovered that almost all
of them are saving for some sort of laptop.
Kids can't get finance.
I'm thinking about setting up some sort of 'trust' arrangement where
they can borrow the money (with perants permission) to buy a budget
laptop off trademe.
What I'm interested to know is how many CLUGer's would like to provide
some of the financing.
It would be a loan only and also repaid with interest.
Comments welcomed.
Cheers Don
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