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One day while cleaning up my men cave I realized I have a lot old and not so old hardware lying around that I don’t use. It would be a shame to just throw it away or give it to random people. At that exact moment I had brilliant idea – lets give it to FLOSS projects. There must be a lot of people that could make use of it. Especially those in developing countries or those of us that don’t have a budget for hardware but have skills to help. But how? As far as I know there is is nothing like that existing.

My idea would be to create a web page where FLOSS developers / projects could register and seek help from people like me. Whose of us willing to help would register as well and post descriptions and pictures of hardware they are willing to send to the registered projects / developers.

There would have to be of course some kind of oversee who gets what and how. So far I have no idea how to do that part

People that don’t have hardware to spare could make donations that would be used to help ship items for those that have them but don’t want to spend money on shipping. I guess international shipments are expensive.

So far I registered a domain www.helpfloss.org and I’m willing to pay for it as long as I can. I can also devote some time to web page development (php, mysql, js).

As you can see thats only the beginning later on we could grow on this idea and make a huge change in the community.

I’m sending this email to few pod-casts I hope with your help I could get this project of the ground. If anyone thinks it’s a good idea please contact me.