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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Hardware drive needs your old computers
When last we spoke to Ken Starks of Austin’s HeliOS Project, there had been a dustup involving AISD and some national publicity regarding LINUX.
We won’t go into that whole story (you can read about it here and here, but one thing lost in that bit of news might have been the work that Starks does in Austin to bring computers to kids who might not otherwise be able to afford them.
The HeliOS Project takes donated computers and installs the free-to-use LINUX operating system on them, then gives those computers to community centers and to students. Open-source software (for, say, word processing and Internet browsing) is also installed.
I know these are tough times, but if you have a computer that’s sitting around collecting dust, it would be a huge help to this effort. Their 2009 Hardware Drive has just launched. You can learn more about HeliOS here. Do what you can to help.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to see if I can get rid of my wife’s ancient refurbished Dell desktop system; we weren’t using it anyway.
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