[ELECTRON] Fwd: Furtherfield needs your old laptops for work with homeless people in London...

[Simon Yuill]

Furtherfield needs your old laptops for work with homeless 
people in
London...

The Zero Dollar Laptop Project
http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop.php

In January 2010 the Zero Dollar Laptop Project kicks off 
with clients of
St Mungo's charity for homeless people in London. We will 
be recycling
hardware, breaking Windows and installing Free and Open 
Source Software
to build media laptops and create music, graphics and 
video for
distribution over the Internet. Participants will leave 
the project with
street-smart technical knowledge and a wireless enabled 
media laptop,
classier than any shiny power-book.

The Zero Dollar Laptop is a recycled computer, running 
Free Open Source
Software (FOSS) that is fast and effective- now and long 
into the future.

- Do you have an old, unused laptop taking up space in 
your home or office?
- Like to see it returned to productive life?
- If YES, then please donate your old laptop.

DONATE YOUR LAPTOP!

First email us and tell us about it. 
ruth[dot]catlow[at]furtherfield[dot]org

In order to become a Zero Dollar Laptop your old laptop 
will need:-
- a working screen
- processor-a minumum 1GHz Pentium 3, Athlon, Celeron.
- 256 (but more ideally 512) ram
- wireless card would be helpful
- We can help you to work this stuff out if you are not 
sure.

If you live in London or Sheffield we can arrange a 
pick-up or drop-off
in January 2010.
If you don't live in London or Sheffield but would still 
like to donate
your laptop to the project please mail your laptop (well 
padded and with
all the peripherals you can spare) to:-

Zero Dollar Laptop Project,
HTTP Gallery, Furtherfield.org,
Arena Design Centre,
71 Ashfield Road,
London N4 1NY,
ENGLAND

Thanks!!

More About Zero Dollar Laptop
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The Zero Dollar Laptop project is a programme of 
workshops, public
debates, exhibitions and networks of skills and media 
sharing for arts,
technology and the environment.

Inspired by the Zero Dollar Laptop Manifesto 
http://tinyurl.com/ypklas
developed in partnership with Access Space 
http://www.access-space.org/
with St Mungo's charity for the homeless 
http://www.mungos.org/
as part of Furtherfield.org Media Art Ecologies
http://www.furtherfield.org/mediaartecologies.php
supported by funding from the Transformation Fund

Artistic Team: Jake Harries and James Wallbank (Access 
Space) Ruth
Catlow, Marc Garrett and Olga Panades (furtherfield.org)

For more information contact Ruth Catlow -
ruth[dot]catlow[at]furtherfield[dot]org

About Furtherfield
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Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for 
creating,
viewing, discussing and learning about experimental 
practices at the
intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org

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