On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:22 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: [snip]
> Something else which might be worth mentioning, a friend of mine in our local > LUG came up with an idea of doing a complete training course, for a small fee > to cover room hire we were looking at providing a free PC running Ubuntu. > We'd take the trainees through installing Ubuntu, using it (general use and > administration) and then at the end of the course they could take the PC home > and keep it. > > Granted this did require a donation of PCs, in this case my friend had been > given a number of P3 and P4 PCs but it turned out that the catch was he > wasn't alowed to give them away to anyone in the UK due to a potential > comeback on the organisation who supplied the PCs. > > Still with all the new rules on electronics disposal, and the positive press, > maybe some of us may be able to get donations of old PCs from businesses as > they upgrade. Just a thought. This sounds like what Free Geeks in the US do: http://www.freegeek.org/ And apparently the Blackpool LUG and computer club do something similar: http://www.pcrecycler.co.uk/club/node/73 Maybe it'd be worth asking those guys for advice to know what works and what doesn't? Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
