[sf-lug] Laptops for kids/linux

[jim]

Yes. I believe the person is not on the SF-LUG list, 
but is part of the Noisebridge community and on the 
noisebridge-discuss list. I'll contact him directly 
and forward your email to him (and his to you if he 
okays that). 



On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 08:32 -0800, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> 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:
>         
>         
>         
>         >From a Noisebridge sub-group discussion:
>         
>         > http://www.linuxtoys.org/multiseat/multiseat.html
>         >
>         > [I'm] "Still working on the donations, got a meeting
>         > tomorrow for seeing about getting NB (or another 501c3)
>         > Intuit's overflow machines.
>         
>         >         "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).
>         
>         >         "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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