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Categories

Community_Beginnings

• Answers the questions:
  1. How to plan
  2. Getting Communities involved.
  3. Training the community to take ownership after the technology center is completed.

Building_the_technology_center

• Answers the questions:
  1. What type of technology center do you need?
  2. Should you use thin clients or fat clients?

Providing_WiFi_to_the_community Under construction

Existing Community Projects

Participants in this wiki:
Sterling Community Recreation Center - Greenville, SC

• Sterling Community Center Web site originated by John Robertson/RRCI.
• Sterling Community Revitalization project

Gussie Green - Charleston, SC

• Location & Contact
  • Address: 2012 Success Street North Charleston, SC
  • Hours: 5:30-8:30pm Monday-Friday
• ggTech Mailing List
• Meeting Log
• Pictures

Free IT Athens - Athens, Ga

• Free IT Athens home page
• Pictures

External Links

Other existing community projects in the US

• Helios Project Austin, Tx - A child's exposure to technology should never be predicated on an ability to pay for it.

• Free Geek - The original computer recycling program in Portland, Oregon.

• Growing Up Free in Lakeland, Fla] and Qimo4Kids Xbuntu based free PC program by Micheal J. Hall
  • Growing up Free (link above) also contains a Wiki with links to more charity organizations providing free PCs to needy kids.

• Linux For Education This site contains Moodle based education software for the public based on the Creative Commons License. These courses are available to anyone running a technology center by installing moodle, and then loading the courses for local use.