<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">In a similar light, my church has a program called Computers@First. Right now they're just doing classes, but I spoke with the director of the ministry to start something similar to take old systems, refurbish them, and send them out to the needy in the community with UbuntuCE on them (It is a christian church after all.). Nothing's come of it yet, but it would be nice to see how other groups around the state are doing this as well.<br><div> </div>Justin Miller<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Brian Pitts <brian@polibyte.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Georgia Ubuntu Mailing List <ubuntu-us-ga@lists.ubuntu.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, March 14, 2009 11:15:05 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Volunteer Opportunity in Savannah<br></font><br> I thought I'd mention an exciting development in Savannah I<br>just learned about. My apologies if this has already been mentioned here<br>and I missed it.<br><br>The city received a grant to expand their wifi offering. As part of the<br>expansion, they decided to offer it for free in a low-income area. Since<br>many of the residents don't have computers, they partnered with a local<br>nonprofit to start a computer refurbishing program. The program teaches<br>young people how to repair computers and install Ubuntu. They're looking<br>for hardware donations and volunteers.<br><br><a href="http://www.connectsavannah.com/news/archive/10851/" target="_blank">http://www.connectsavannah.com/news/archive/10851/</a><br><a href="http://www.awolinc.org/" target="_blank">http://www.awolinc.org/</a><br><br></div></div></div><br> </body></html>