[conspire] Box needed for open source demo

[Christian Einfeldt]

On Thursday 05 May 2005 00:34, Alex Escalante wrote:
> there is a great deal for dells at the surplus place nearby
> http://www.surpluscomputers.com/store/main.aspx?p=ItemDetail&item
>=COM10627

I have set parameters that I will not spend a dime on boxes to give 
away, because I am trying to scale this up globally.  I am hoping 
that we will be able to develop a web site which will help people 
from all over the planet coordinate the canibalizing of computers 
to share parts that would otherwise go into landfill.

For example, while filming in Brazil, we met Etienne Delacroix, a 
professor in Uruguay who literally travels to the US with only a 
few changes of underswear and socks so that he can bring back 
suitcases of parts to build boxes out of.  He then installs open 
source, of course, on these boxes, and shows his students how to 
reinvent computers by so doing.  It's actually very fundamental 
science that he's getting into.  

So I think that if we could amass stuff, we might be able to 
coordinate this better so that Etienne can actually take more than 
two changes of underwear on his next trip to Boston.  Heh.  

http://www.DIYparts.org  

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>
> -something completely different-
> a local college, NDNU has an amazing theater dept and they run
> all the lighing on old apple computers.  i have 5 p2 333mhz
> systems with 128mb ram and 6gb hd's just collecting dust at work.
> is there a small version of linux with an apple emulator?