[Imc-africa] Fw: [Request for cllection of PCs for the Indymedia Convergence Center at the World Social Forum 2007 in Kenya]

[sphinx]

I wish to go ahead and express on behalf of the Nairobi Convergence IMC group
our appreciate for your quick decision to be separated from your machine as
support for the Nairobi Convergence IMC.
Thanks
Sphinx.



Quoting levin at riseup.net:

> hi puscii, sphinx and bonzai,
>
> puscii - is it okay if we give bonzai a computer to take to the WSF?  
> groente suggests actually the box behind the bar is better...
>
> bonzai - can you carry a p3 900 running ubuntu? can you come to  
> utrecht to pick it up? is this feasible?
>
> ciao
> levin
>
> Quoting sphinx <sphinx at indymedia.org>:
>
>> Hi Levin! Thanks for your mail. The debian running Mac will be greatly
>> appretiated.
>> Thanks for the info on the London NGO I'll be applying to them immediately.
>> Thanks again.
>> Sphinx
>>
>> Quoting levin at riseup.net:
>>
>>> hi sphinx,
>>> good luck with your IMC at the WSF. As far as I can tell there are  
>>>   basically no computers 'ready to go' at PUSCII that aren't in use 
>>>    (although maybe the debian running mac on the bar could go?).
>>>
>>> and unfortunately puscii has a very small number of very busy    
>>> volunteers at the moment, and i personally am disappearing until    
>>> mid-january, which will too late to help.
>>>
>>> but there is an NGO in london with a large warehouse of second-hand 
>>>    computers that they recycle, install linux, and send to the  
>>> global   south:
>>>
>>> http://www.computeraid.org/
>>>
>>> you can appy for computers here:
>>>
>>> http://www.computeraid.org/apply%20for%20computers.htm
>>>
>>> they have some links with IMC-UK (and supplied stuff for the    
>>> autonomous IMC at the European Social Forum in London a few years   
>>> ago).
>>>
>>> try them!
>>> good luck
>>> levin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> ----- Forwarded message from sphinx <sphinx at indymedia.org> -----
>>>>
>>>> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:11:52 +0100
>>>> From: sphinx <sphinx at indymedia.org>
>>>> To: puscii at squat.net
>>>> Subject: Request for cllection of PCs for the Indymedia Convergence Center
>>>> 	at the World Social Forum 2007 in Kenya
>>>> User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0.2)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dear Puscii! I?m Sphinx from IMC-Ambazonia   
>>>> (www.ambazonia.indymdia.org ) and
>>>> the IMC-Africa Working group. I?m actively involved in preparing the
>>>> Convergence IMC for the Coming World Social Forum in Nairobi Kenya-Jan07.
>>>>
>>>> I do remember that some folks from puscii were very helpful in collecting
>>>> computers for use in an indymedia project in Malaga and North   
>>>> Africa in 2004.
>>>> Though I got involved pretty late with trying to organize   
>>>> transport   for the PCs
>>>> from Puscii, the earlier transportation organizing was pretty   
>>>> poorly  done and I
>>>> can hardly remember how it all ended.
>>>>
>>>> I am writing to plead with you to collect some computers for us to 
>>>>   use at the
>>>> Convergence indymedia Center at the Nairobi World Social Forum-Jan07.
>>>> This time we have the luck that Bonzai from puscii will be coming  
>>>>  to  the event
>>>> and Fabian from Germany is also ready to carry some pcs with him if we can
>>>> organize collection. So, this time if you spend you energy to   
>>>> collect pcs for
>>>> us you can be sure we?ll not let them hang around occupying your space but
>>>> that we?ll definitely transport them to Nairobi for use.
>>>> The organizing for this event in an African environment where   
>>>> fundraising is
>>>> null has been really tough and if you collect pcs for us they will 
>>>>     alternately
>>>> be of great help.
>>>> While looking to hearing from you,
>>>> Accept revolutionary greetings from me.
>>>> Sphinx
>>>>
>>>> ----- End forwarded message -----
>>>>
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