[GRLUG] Possibilty of creating a nonprofit orgination

[Bill Creswell]

If someone was clever enought to setup free juno dial-up accounts on
linux......
Kids could still use pc's for educational purposes, but there again, the
cost is another $40 for a printer.

On 10/20/06, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Isn't the bigger cost Internet access?
>
> I bought a $50 junker at VC Tech Source.
> 1GHz processor.  512MB of RAM.  Plenty
> good for surfing and e-mail.  So the cost
> of a machine is not too much of an issue.
>
>     -Bob
>
>
> On 10/20/06, Jared Upton <jared77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was thinking of the possibilty of creating a non profit
> organization  to
> > collect and redistribute used PCs to the less forunate school childen,
> > familys, etc.  To avoid costs we could install Eubuntu on all the
> machines.
> > This would also address the nasty spyware problems.  I have been
> conisdering
> > this awhile and then came across this article today on digg.com
> > http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=280193
> > Any comments on the feasibilty of this would be greatly appreciated.  I
> am
> > also new to the area so something similar may in place that I am not
> aware
> > of.
> >
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