Re: What's happening?

Emanuele Galloni
2003-06-06T12:10:33Z

It sounds really good to me and I can see a lot of material for a good story.
We at Lulop are thinking about opensource too for our videopusher software that
we use for videonews distribution to broadcasters, so this has a double
importance for us.
Going back to Canada, can you tell me more about this program? What is the name
of the organisation who is managing this?
By the way, I am looking forward to meet you in London and speak more deeply
about this issue so we can put a nice piece altogheter.
Bestest.
Emanuele

"jerryc@innerpeace.org" wrote:

> Here's what I've found out from discussions with computer recyclers
> around the world. (Canada, BTW, has one of the most well developed
> computer recycling programs.) The resourcful ones have plenty of demand
> for pentiums, 486's, and even 386's, and put most of the ones they can
> salvage back into use. They even use 286's for word processing machines
> and are pretty much matched with supply and demand.
>
> They have some use for 8086's for some science applications, but they
> have more supply than demand. If they had applications for the 8086's,
> they would love to put them to good use.
>
> Even when they recycle the parts for scrap metal and keep them out of
> landfills, that's still a poor utilization of the resource compared to
> keeping them functioning as intact computers. As insignificant as these
> computers seem by today's standards, they are so far above having no
> computer, particularly with the right applications.
>
> The value to society of keeping these computers doing something of value
> is huge. When you add the value of keeping them out of landfills it gets
> much bigger. With the billions of dollars companies are sinking into
> open source and the potential liability exposure manufactures like IBM,
> HP, and even Dell will face from the environmental hazards of these old
> computers in landfills, both the actual and PR value of supporting a
> program like ELKS is a no brainer. We just need to present this to the
> right people who do the funding for open source.
>
> If anybody has the right connections to get some financial support for
> ELKS from some of the sources that are already funding open source,
> please get this info before them. Compared to what's being spent
> elsewhere, we're really talking small change and huge return on investment.
>
> I'm planning to visit Red Hat in the next few weeks before I head for
> Rwanda. They probably don't have the funding themselves but should be
> well connected to those who do. I'm hoping to inspire them to put some
> support into this. Hopefully that will get the funders to throw some
> small change behind ELKS and get this project to a stable, functioning
> level.
>
> Emanuele Galloni wrote:
> > Thank you Jerry,
> > I did get it and it seams good.
> > The fact that you are going to Rwanda makes it even better.
> > One of the things I was working on is the following:
> > Originally, some of you guys were saying that ELKS, since it can run on
> > any pc, from an 8088 to a Pentium IV, could
> > be a very useful in developing countries where old computers are much
> > more common that the newest ones.
> > Is there anybody who can give me some infos about this side of ELKS?
> > Many thanks.
> > Emanuele
> >
> > "jerryc@innerpeace.org" wrote:
> >
> > We're not in London, we're in the Smokey Mountains of Asheville NC US.
> >
> > But we could do an email interview.
> >
> > I don't know what your schedule is, but I'm headed to Rwanda in July
> > with the Inner Peace work. If it's real important to do something in
> > person, I might be able to route myself that way and do a layover.
> >
> > I just did a post with a little info about what we're doing. If you
> > didn't get it, let me know.
> >
> > Emanuele Galloni wrote:
> > > Hello guys,
> > > I am still trying to give to ELKS some sort of media resonance.. I
> > would like
> > > to video- interview somebody about it and shoot some computers and
> > palmtops
> > > running it. I am based in London (UK) from were I cover things for
> > Lulop.com.
> > > If anybody is still interested and is not too far from here, please,
> > let me
> > > know.
> > > Emanuele
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Richard Wallman wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>On 5 Jun, Miguel Bolanos wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>In the new site we will have the status of the project, as well as
> > the
> > >>>TODO list and docs, this site is intended to be available in
> > several
> > >>>languages.
> > >>
> > >>If you need web space, I'll happily provide some.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>Regarding the project it self, the last commit was indeed several
> > months
> > >>>ago, i am trying to organize my time to get back into all this.
> > >>
> > >>That's okay, I just thought it may have been abandoned altogether! I
> >
> > >>may get round to finished my xmodem and compression programs then...
> >
> > >>--
> > >>Richard Wallman
> > >>http://www.murkygoth.uklinux.net/elks
> > >>
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