[frgeek-michiana] Virtual Scavengers recycling cooperative
- From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: FreeGeek Michiana <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:35:30 -0500
John Crook says Virtual Scavengers is moving ahead on their statewide
recycling cooperative project.
:: Steering committee
VS will establish a steering committee of delegates from the member
organizations. The steering committee will develop a plan. VS has
identified eight organization spread fairly evenly throughout the state.
FGM is the only group he has spoken to about the cooperative. He hopes each
organization will be interested.
:: Structure
John envisions a 501(c) organization, member based rather than board of
directors based and separate from VS.
:: Revenue/cost sharing
The steering committee will determine revenue/cost sharing. It will develop
a basic grant application to submit to foundations. John is talking to a
staffer at the E.P.A. in Washington who runs their Waste Wise program. She
is going to help the cooperative find corporate sponsorship for publicity,
transportation, storage and recycling.
:: Pickup scrap in South Bend
John says VS may have a truck by this weekend. I asked him to estimate the
minimum amount of scrap we need in order to justify sending the truck to
South Bend.
:: Gaylords
VS has a vendor for $7/new gaylord boxes and no vendor for used boxes. What
is our cost for new and used boxes?
:: Visit from VS
John wants to visit us. That would mean a lab night. A couple of us can
give him the grand tour. Our server at Goodwill, the barn in Bremen, the
Sallie storage room and LTSP lab. VS needs us to help them convert some of
their operation from Windows to GNU/Linux. The LTSP lab should be a good
demo for John. Maybe we can loan him a FreeBox to take back or just give
him some Knoppix and Debian discs.
Tom
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