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[Tanner Lovelace <lovelace AT wayfarer.org>]

Judy Hallman wrote:

> To RTPnet TACT list and Triangle InterNetWorkers, with copy to Jim Shamp:
>
> See http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-433913.html
>
> Here are a couple of quotes:
>
>  You can donate your used, but useful, computer gear to TEAMing for
>  TECHnology, a computer recycling program operated from the Morrisville
>  headquarters of Triangle United Way since 1996.
>
> ...
>
>  The process helped keep more than $500,000 worth of useful computer gear
>  in use in 2003 alone, helping about 200 families and 179 agencies,
>  according to Bowers-Roghelia.
>
> There's decription of programs that use the computers, ending with:
>
>  And donating unused computers for refurbishing and redistribution by
>  TEAMing for TECHnology can help make those literacy, GED and job skills
>  classes possible, noted Bowers-Roghelia.
>
> Judy Hallman (hallman AT rtpnet.org, http://www.rtpnet.org/hallman)
> Executive Director, RTPnet, NC (http://www.RTPnet.org/)

Note that this is the same group that worked with the Triangle
Linux Users Group last year to sell off a bunch of non-PC hardware
and raise money for both TriLUG and Teaming for Technology.

The Teaming for Technology group is very worthwile.  I recommend
people look into them. :-)

Cheers,
Tanner Lovelace
Triangle Linux Users Group SC member