[DC LoCo] [Fwd: Support for organization in Prince George's?]

[Sanjay Jain]

Scott,

Please don't refuse the grant entirely, get them to pay something ($100 per system?), then use the money for other stuff... like funding the green festival table :) 

~sanjay 

--- On Wed, 8/27/08, Kevin Cole <kjcole at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> From: Kevin Cole <kjcole at ubuntu.com>
> Subject: [DC LoCo] [Fwd: Support for organization in Prince George's?]
> To: "Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Team" <ubuntu-us-dc at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 3:33 PM
> And the requests just keep on comin'!
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Support for organization in Prince George's?
> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:21:13 -0400
> From: Scott Wells <wswells at gmail.com>
> 
> Greetings:
> 
> In my day job, I got a request for a grant for a
> organization in
> Prince George's County to buy hardware for a computer
> lab for youth
> developing career skills. That kind of grant is outside our
> mission
> scope, but I thought the requestor's need was a good
> opportunity for
> repurposed hardware and FOSS, specifically Ubuntu Linux.
> 
> When I declined the grant, I asked if a free and
> open-source
> alternative would be of interest; she replied
> affirmatively. Is
> setting up and training for 6-station lab something the
> LoCo might be
> up for doing?
> 
> Yours truly,
> Scott Wells
> 
> 
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