Senectus . wrote: > > > 2009/2/11 Stewart Johnston <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Just heard a lady on the abc talking all the computers that will have > been lost in the bushfires ("and all the kids wanting to check > facebook > for support"). While it's not the top priority for people just now, I > imagine that it may become so in the near future. > > Does anyone know of any refurbishment initiatives that might be > providing PCs to Victoria that are jumping in to help? I'm not working > at the moment and would be happy to volunteer my Ubuntu installing > skills, as well as my hardware refurbishing talents, if needed. > > > As well meaning as this sounds, the reports I've seen and heard > suggest they don't have houses or even power to use the PC's with... > > Is there some organization close to ground zero that can confirm or > deny these efforts would be worth working on? no point sending a bunch > of working PC's into an area that don't need to be cluttered by such > things... it may end up being a downright hindrance to recovery. > > Whoops... sorry senectus.
As I said, it probably wouldn't be an immediate need, but I'm guessing it'll come fairly soon. Power is being restored as far as I know, and it'd be nice to be ready to fill demand when it comes. -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
