[Penguins-care] Man seeks used laptops to refurbish, give to students

James Harris jwednesday at gmail.com
Thu Feb 17 15:49:34 EST 2011


Vance I think we should donate and get you one too ... that broken screen  
thingy you have is not good :)  Jim

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:32:07 -0500, Vance Kochenderfer <vkochend at nyx.net>  
wrote:

> "A co-worker's purchase of a new laptop computer was inspiration
> for the idea that Mark Cloyd of Chadron is putting into action as
> a means to help more Chadron students take advantage of the
> opportunities that technology provides.
>
> "But the students who benefit form his just launched project will
> have to add a new word to their vocabulary, Ubuntu, and learn to
> get along without some of the familiar computer programs they may
> already know.
>
> "Cloyd's project, which is just getting underway, aims to take
> unused, donated laptop computers, refurbish them with the Ubuntu
> free, open source operating system and other free programs and
> give them to students who aren't able to afford their own
> computer."
>
> <http://www.thechadronnews.com/articles/2011/02/15/chadron/headlines/doc4d5ac209d16a8037239904.txt>
>
> Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
> vkochend at nyx.net          |   good belt of Scotch"    -Nick Danger
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