> thing. This seems to be a problem of education to me - if you can work out
> a way to educate the non-geeks into understanding that the bunch of old
> hardware the geeks have stacked up in their garages can do the job, then
> you might find somebody to donate it to. Or maybe find somewhere to
> install a bunch of old machines, show how they're working, get an article
> in the paper. Perhaps hard to find though... I'd like to volunteer my
> support all the way, I think it's INSANE the amount of old hardware that
> just gets trashed.
Tom may have hit something here. Not just in the context of discarded machines,
but in general might it not be a good idea for SLUG to see if some permanent
space could be had for a club/play/work/demo/build/display room? Photography
clubs have their darkrooms, lifesaving clubs have clubhouses, why should not a
computer club have a club room? This could be used to house a permanent display
of working networked machines, cute hardware rigs (webcams, robots) that members
have put together, resources for members, e.g. a set of CDs to dup, contributed
manuals to read. It could be used by members (with authorisation from the
committee) for events like mini-installfests, Saturday afternoon hardware
hacking, Tuesday night <insert your favourite piece of software> interest group
meeting, etc. etc. with far less organisation than a main fest (which would not
be displaced, of course). It could be shown to visitors as an example of Linux
running. If networked to the outside world it could be used to run SLUG team
efforts. I'm just raving here, not everything is a good idea but give a thought
to the main premise, i.e. a physical space SLUG can call its own to show off
Linux.
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