[imc-tech-solidarity] imc beirut

[blue.pi]

Hi, 

sheri told me that you are about to ship 200 computers to the Global South 
and that maybe I should send our request for 8 second hand computers for IMC 
Beirut to you. Now, I checked your docs and it looks like you just do Latin 
America, not the Middle East. So, before I send the proposal, are you the 
right address or someone else? 

blue
(IMC beirut volunteer) 

Sheri Herndon writes: 


>>>have you all been in contact with any imcs in europe who could 
>>>do the shipping?  it would be great to see if we could get a huge 
>>>container load of computers to the middle east/mediterranean.  
>>>perhaps we can add that to the tech solidarity project's wish list.  
>>>they are nearly ready to send off the second shipment of nearly 
>>>200 computers.  so it's definitely doable.
>>
>>Yeah, I talked with Xavier from IMC UK about this when we met in 
>>Escanda, 
>>but I actually didn’t even know until now that it was called tech 
>>solidarity 
>>project.
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> glad to hear you're talking with xavier.  i am not sure if he's involved with the tech solidarity project that has been organizing computer shipments to south america up until now.  i haven't seen his name on the list.  you can check out more of this information here: 
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>> So, yes in fact this was on possibility I was thinking of but I 
>>had 
>>no clue that it was so concrete and already close to shipment. What is 
>>the 
>>contact of the project? BTW. if that's a sort of official project (I had 
>>thought it was just some people in the UK), do they have funding? 
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> it sounds like the uk folks are doing their thing and it sounds like it falls within the larger category of tech solidarity, but i don't know anything more about what they are doing.  evan has been one of the contacts for the tech solidarity project.  we're still raising money for the second shipment.  the first shipment funding came from multiple sources - in kind donations, lots of volunteer tech support from sf to portland to oakland to seattle, the portland freegeek people, indymedia people of course, individual donors, a call out for funds on the global site, a small foundation in sf, etc.  we're still looking for funds and have some other possibilities with the open society institute. 
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