[imc-tech-solidarity] imc beirut

[evan]

It's not that bad. The costs are per square meter. From the US to south 
america it's $160 per square meter. I think it's not that much more, 
possible $200 per sq meter for shipping from the US to Lebanon. You can 
fit about 5 computers with monitors and keyboards in a square meter, so 
if you want eight computers you're talking 2sq meters which is a 
shipping cost of about $400. Now, customs is your bigger problem. But 
that's something you can figure out on your end.

in solidarity,
evan


On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 04:04  PM, Forrest English wrote:

> Seems that it'd be cost prohibitive to send just 8 computers really.
>
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, blue.pi wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>> Please join at:
>>> https://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-tech-solidarity
>>>
>>> Send email to the list at:
>>> imc-tech-solidarity at lists.indymedia.org
>>>
>>> The list will address ongoing efforts to send computer equipment to 
>>> IMCs
>>> and communities in the global south.  To participate, please visit:
>>> http://docs.indymedia.org/twiki/bin/view/Global/SendingComputers
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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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