[ Thanks to helios for this link.
]
“For those that do not know, Linux Against Poverty is
an annual event organized by Lynn Bender that gathers some of the
top tech people in the area and assembles them to evaluate, triage,
repair and then install the Linux Operating System on those
computers. The computers are donated by local businesses and
individuals. The repaired and refurbished computers are then given
to disadvantaged kids in the Central Texas area via The HeliOS
Project.“Last year’s efforts netted The HeliOS Project 219 usable
machines. Those machines were received in July of 2009 and were
gone by November. You can see some of the pictures of the 2009
effort by clicking the above link.“Now I am going to be honest with you here…despite Lynn’s best
efforts, most of the local media fairly ignored us last year. With
the exception of KUT radio and Omar Gallaga, this event was pretty
much blacked out. This year however, there are some publicity
possibilities looming that will bode well for us. While I cannot
say until they happen, we have reason to believe that our
mostly-unaided success last year will draw some good media
interest.”