[DC LoCo] "Less is more" laptops initiative

[William Scrivens]

All,

I'm looking to bring an entire school and community into the Ubuntu fold.
 The 3 re-purposed laptops given to me, thanks to Phil, some month ago will
be on there way to Haiti in late July, cost for all three was about $100, a
new battery, one keyboard, and a power supply.  One of these will be
fitted with Rachel Initiative, and I will also be visiting the local
hospital as well to see there IT, Communications, and medical
reference capability.

Later, I will be looking to send a lab of 20 computers.

Right now, I'm looking for funding of this July trip.  Please consider it.

Thanks,
Bill

William Scrivens
Time Talent Treasure ... T3 with Haiti
2100 Rose Hill La.
Gambrills, MD 21054

Sponsors:
Miller Dodson Associates, Inc.
South County Rotary, MD
Bladensburg Rotary, MD
Desktops2Go, NetTek, LLC
Volunteers


On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Phil Shapiro <pshapiro at his.com> wrote:

>
> Hi ubuntistas,
>
>   When I saw that Staples is selling this pretty nice HP laptop for $349,
> it made me want to install Linux Mint on it.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/64svqjc
>
>    Then the thought came to mind that it might be fun for our Loco to
> have a little scholarship and sells this laptop, dual-booting to Linux
> Mint, for $300. That means 10 of us would each chip in $5 to bring
> another person into the Linux fold.
>
>    The person receiving (i.e. buying at a discount from us) would apply
> for the scholarship on a web site, listing their skills and interests.
> This might be one way to get Linux into the hands of some local
> college students who otherwise would find it difficult to buy a
> laptop.
>
>     We could load up the Linux side of the computer with tons of great
> programs including GIMP, LibreOffice, Inkscape, Scribus, OpenShot
> etc. -- along with screencasts explaining how to use those programs.
>
>       I could also write up such a project for PCWorld magazine,
> spotlighting the people who have received laptops via the "Less is
> more" initiative.
>
>        If you're interested in participating in such an initiative in any
> way, thanks for sending me an email off-list with the subject:
> Less is more
>
>            phil
>
> Interestingly, this laptop has a DVD burner, so the person receiving it
> from us could help us in copying FOSS DVD's for free distribution here in
> our area. They could also produce their own Blu-Ray DVD's using that DVD
> burner.
>
>
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