This is a laudable effort. I will however suggest that this program be localized.
Local affiliate teams can server as holding bays and dispatchers of donated laptops.
So if I want to donate a laptop here in Lagos, Nigeria, I simply send the said laptop to the local affiliate team and communicate with Wikimedia HQ. when someone local needs a laptop, HQ approves and the local affiliate team on receipt of approvals dispatch the laptop to the person laptop was donated to.
This will ensure global reach, reduce cost and improve efficiency of the project.
Kayode Yussuf
On Mar 17, 2017, at 08:16, rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 6:06 AM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote: We currently have approximately 20 laptops ready to be donated. Applications are welcome.
asaf, you mind loose a word about the spec or brand of these laptops? fyi, in CH we work with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labdoo for such occasions, adding e.g. offline en:wp, fr:wp and kiwix to what labdoo puts on.
rupert
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