[microsound-announce] The Zero Dollar Laptop Project - We need your old laptops

[Jake Harries]

Hi
This project might interest some of you.

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Jake
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Jake Harries
Digital Arts Programme Manager
ACCESS SPACE
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From: Ruth Catlow <ruth.catlow at furtherfield.org>
Date: Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Subject: [NetBehaviour] We need your old laptops: The Zero Dollar Laptop Project
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
<netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org>


We need your old laptops for...

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

Furtherfield.org in partnership with Access Space

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Do you have an old, unused laptop taking up space in your home or office?

Like to see it returned to productive life?

Do you live in London or Sheffield?

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.

Then we can organise a London or Sheffield pick-up or drop-off in January 2010

About Zero Dollar Laptop

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.

In January 2010 we kick off ZDLT in London with clients of a charity
for homeless people; recycling hardware, breaking Windows and
installing FOSS. We will build media laptops and then use them to
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.

Participants will also be invited to take part in wider ZDLT cultural
activities: music making, public exhibitions and publications.

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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

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

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/
as part of Furtherfield.org Media Art Ecologies
http://www.furtherfield.org/mediaartecologies.php




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ACCESS SPACE
Unit 1, AVEC Building
3-7  Sidney St
Sheffield, S1 4RG, UK
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