[ale] Volunteer work for non-profits

[Greg]

Well, it is basically wall to wall of old semi/old equipment.  It is located
in an old theatre/club that used to be known as "Ground Zero".  They have an
AS400 they are trying to get up (and I suggested putting Linux on it). I put
in a Samba server today.  They need help processing and fixing all manner of
PC's and printers.

I saw a table that looked it was out of museum.... old PC's that used to
ran/run off a floppy (the 5 1/4 " kind), Apple II (?), stacks of Apple power
PC's, SE-30's (sniff sniff, my first computer), and everything else you
could imagine.  CPM anyone ?

They refurbish equipment for donation to non-profits, they help teach
classes to disadvantaged youth and give them PC's at the end of the course,
and help train volunteers to fix PC's.  Anyone who has cracked a box open
would do well and anyone who wants to could be taught the ABC's of pc-dom
(they have a board in a room detailing the history of cards up to modern PCI
and including IBM's little offshoot as well as other stuff) - pretty cool.

They have way more stuff than they have folks to help.  The PC's they give
away have Windows 95 and 98 on them, though they are highly Linux friendly
in their organization.  Their router/firewall is a Coyote Linux box.
Needless to say, I will introduce them to OpenOffice, qmail, and friends.
They also properly salvage PC's as they realize that PC's and monitors are
hazardous waste in the environment as one of their missions.

I was there from 12 noon to about 5:00 doing stuff.  It was a good time and
I will be back.  See for more info:

http://www.freebytes.org/

Greg Canter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Geoffrey
> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 9:41 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Volunteer work for non-profits
>
>
> Help doing what?  Maybe we could go one weekend as the ALE organization?
>
> Greg wrote:
> > I just got back from Free Bytes and they could really use help.  Their
> > number is 404.846.8414 & they are located here in Atlanta.
> >
> > Greg Canter
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Megan
> >>Golding
> >>Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 9:57 AM
> >>To: ale at ale.org
> >>Subject: Re: [ale] Volunteer work for non-profits
> >>
> >>
> >>--- John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>Anyone know of a good site that lists organizations seeking tech
> >>>volunteers?
> >>
> >>http://www.volunteermatch.org/
> >>http://www.interconnection.org/
> >>
> >>Meg
> >>
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