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  From: Robyn Manning <rmanning@powercom.com.au>
  To  : Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
        David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:36:02 +1030

Re: Linux Library

Hi all,

When do we start baking?

I'll bake for the next meeting.

Robyn

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:01, Glen Turner wrote:
> David Lloyd wrote:
> > The alternative would be to convince one of the Local Government
> > Authorities or the Local Government Association to run such a library
> > and work out how it works from there. They've got the expertise, the
> > buying power and possible could sponsor it as well.
>
> Sponsorship is unlikely, as the state government is ripping
> funding out of council libraries.
>
> Libraries are more than happy to receive donations of
> books from hobbyist groups.  For example, the Aussi
> Masters swimming clubs contribute books on swim coaching
> to the library on Kintore St, City.
>
> This isn't cost-free to the library.  Despite that, they make an
> effort to get contributed items catalogued and shelved quickly.
>
> A quick browsing of my bookshelf suggests that we need about $1,500
> to make a worthwhile donation of books that would adequately
> cover UNIX computing.  Mind you, this would be something
> excellent to do, as it would genuinely make Linux cheap to
> install and configure.  So maybe we need to start making
> chocolate crackles.
>
> Being serious for a moment, that might do it.
>
>   $1 * 70 people at meeting * 10 meetings = $700
>
> So if we got a core of people together to supply an snack during
> the meeting break we could fund a decent range of computing
> books for the Adelaide library in about two years.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> glen

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