[K12OSN] non-profit to give linux boxes to kids?

[Brian Chase]

You can start here for some background and eductation.

http://nosi.net/primer/NOSIPrimer.pdf

anthony baldwin wrote:

> hey,
> 
> I received a few odds/ends from my church and elsewhere and built one 
> standalone linnux box that is now in my classroom.  I have enough parts 
> to bild one more in my office right now.  Since I am leaving the school 
> after this year and there is no one in the building with any experience 
> with linux or even a desire to learn to support it's use, I figured I 
> would give it away to a student at the end of the year, have a writing 
> contest (Persuasive essay on why schools shouls use OSS, or expsotiry 
> essay on what is OSS/Linux/GPL or some such thing, not fleshed out yet). 
>  This encouraged me to seek out more stuff.  I put out a few feelers on 
> a free swap mail list locally for computer hardware/parts to build a lab 
> for my kids.  I had put a phone call into the Faith Middleton show 
> (local NPR show) on her non-profit swap show, etc., and I've received 
> such an overwhelming response, I'm not quite sure what to do.  I 
> thinking about starting a non-profit org to rebuild old copmuters and 
> load them up with linux and give them away to deserving students/schools.
> But I haven't the slightest idea how to go about starting such a thing, 
> and both time and money are precious.
> Ideas?

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