In January 2010 we kick off the Zero Dollar Laptop Project in London.
Working with clients of St Mungo's charity for homeless people we will be recycling hardware, breaking Windows and installing Free and Open Source Software. We will build media laptops to create music, graphics and video for distribution over the Internet. Participants will leave the project with street-smart technical knowledge and a wireless enabled media laptop, classier than any shiny power-book.

The Zero Dollar Laptop is a recycled computer, running Free Open Source Software (FOSS) that is fast and effective- now and long into the future.

In partnership with Access Spaceand St Mungo's charity for the homeless.

• Do you have an old, unused laptop taking up space in your home or office?


• Like to see it returned to productive life?


• Do you live in London or Sheffield?



• If yes, then please donate your old laptop.

DONATE YOUR LAPTOP!

First, email Jake and tell him a little bit about it.
In order to become a Zero Dollar Laptop your old laptop will need:-

• a working screen
• processor-a minumum 1GHz Pentium 3, Athlon, Celeron.
• 256 (but more ideally 512) ram
• wireless card would be helpful

We can help you to work this stuff out if you are not sure. Get in touch!

Then we can organise the London or Sheffield drop-off or pick-up in January 2010... email Ruth.

If you don't live in London or Sheffield but would still like to donate your laptop to the project please mail your laptop (well padded and with all the peripherals you can spare) to:-

Zero Dollar Laptop Project,
HTTP Gallery, Furtherfield.org,
Unit A2 Arena Design Centre,
71 Ashfield Road,
London N4 1NY,
ENGLAND

Thanks!!

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Artistic Team: Jake Harries and James Wallbank (Access Space) Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett and Olga Panades (furtherfield.org)

For more information contact Ruth Catlow
ruth[dot]catlow[at]furtherfield[dot]org

The Zero Dollar Laptop project is inspired by the Zero Dollar Laptop Manifesto developed in partnership with Access Space and St Mungo's charity for the homeless as part of Furtherfield.org Media Art Ecologies
Thanks to the Transformation Fund for supporting this first series of workshops.