Computers for Communities (C4C) works with many local partners to ensure that refurbished computers can find homes with those who face barriers to accessing technology.

C4C is currently working with another organization in Ottawa to find home(s) for three Wheelchair accessible computer tables before they land in a dumpster.

Due to some crossed lines in communication this has become a time sensitive issue as the organization is moving at the end of the month and the tables will not be moving with the organization.

Computers for Communities (C4C) is winding down its successful pilot project of offering its weekly computer refurbishing and training sessions. C4C is not closing its doors but is looking for a new home.

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Hey Folks,

The event listing tool we have on our website has not been working for a
number of months, and thus we have been using our mailing list.

In the effort to lift the burden of RSVPing for our events we have an
interim solution. It is an application sitting on another website that
among other things can manage events.

To get to it you can go to our main website
(/). Under the "Volunteer" menu follow
the activity calendar link.

or here is a direct link (hard to remember):

It has been a while since my last post, as usual.

That is the wonderful thing about a blog, post whatever when ever.

So when I post something I would hope it is important enough to strike a chord with people.

We have had a growing success with our first Community Computer Lab. This is great and gave us the push to move forward trying to secure a few more.

All told, our goal is 10 Community Computer Labs in the city of Ottawa and surrounding areas.

Previously we had no minimum specification for machines coming through. That was before the start of Ontario's provincial E-Waste recycling program (http://www.ontarioelectronicstewardship.ca/).

Now we can still maintain our environmental and social mandates while not having to accept all obsolete technology.

We will accept at minimum any computer that is at least a Pentium II, Mac G4, or equivalent AMD and similar architectures.

If you are in doubt contact us and we can help.

Check out CBC Radio 3 online for a slough of free Canadian music.

Not just free as in free beer but also free speech. By choosing to support the OGG Vorbis format, CBC has helped support the open and free music format community.

Whether it is for direct download or subscribing to their podcast feeds you are free to choose your own format.

As I was browsing the Ottawa Public Library online catalogue over the holidays I noticed they have a new section devoted to "Digital Media".

Digital media includes Digital E-Books and Digital Audio Books.

Well the December issue of the Open Source Business Resource is now posted on the web.

This is a local Open Source related publication done in part with Carleton University's Talent first network....

Hey Folks,

The SDRAM I had been waiting for came in the mail today. 4 x 128 Meg SIMS.

I dedicated enough ram to a desktop machine to hopefully get GNOME up and running instead of xFCE. Although slim and lightweight, it will become a challenge to support multiple desktop environments, so at least GNOME and KDE are common enough.

So far the FGO project is proving to be a project worthy of the interest of several people, companies and organizations.

The concept is pretty simple. Take old computers and make them useful again for people that may not have access to computers. extend that into the concept of sweat equity (Volunteerism with a reward) and you have the makings of a pretty fun time.