[sf-lug] Laptops for kids/linux

[Christian Einfeldt]

hi,

I want to jump right on this!  Could someone help hook me up with the
person who posted this link?  I am going to follow it now, but I wanted to
immediately get back to whomever posted this link on Linuxtoys.  Thx!

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:15 PM, jim <jim at systemateka.com> wrote:

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> >From a Noisebridge sub-group discussion:
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> > http://www.linuxtoys.org/multiseat/multiseat.html
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> > [I'm] "Still working on the donations, got a meeting
> > tomorrow for seeing about getting NB (or another 501c3)
> > Intuit's overflow machines.
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> >         "I work for Intuit, the guys who make TurboTax and Quicken. We
> >         have a technology refresh policy where we retire machines
> >         every 36 months or so. We used to offer the machines back to
> >         the workforce for purchase, but then IT started spending more
> >         time fixing computers that they no longer were responsible
> >         for... so the process died. We were just recycling the
> >         machines through a secure processing facility (E-Waste, not
> >         sure of the details other than they wipe the hard drives).
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> >         "So recently Intuit changed the policy and now employees can
> >         request that retiring assets can be donated to a nonprofit of
> >         their choice (either NB as a parent org, or if you have
> >         another 501 setup with you computer work, directly to that). I
> >         understand that you do work with putting computers into the
> >         hands of underserved populations (like students, is what I
> >         understood it to be, but what do I know). I would like to work
> >         with you (assuming you're interested) in getting machines
> >         donated to your linux install parties. The secret awesome part
> >         about this is that Intuit generally standardizes on machine
> >         types, which would mean that nearly identical machines could
> >         be donated in semi-bulk amounts (I'd say 40-60 a month,
> >         usually)."
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