Reason why 84-year old grampa volunteer install Linux on laptop and send it to Africa

I repaired an old PC to open source OSLinuxA male who installs and donates to children in Africa talks about its motivation for the activity.

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84-year-old James Anderson worked as a pastor and has not worked in the IT industry, but he has stayed in Zimbabwe for 13 weeks with his wife and taught mathematics at a school near the border with Mozambique It seems that he decided to find a way to support children of Zimbabwe even after returning home.


Mr. Anderson, who used to love machine tinkering and PC for a long time, is a non-profit organization donating, reusing, recycling and donating old PCs from neighborsFree GeekI heard that he thought that "Free Geek's activities can be handled on a technical basis". "I noticed that there are opportunities for children of Zimbabwe to use their PC easily, but at that time IMemory StickWhenVideo cardIt was lack of knowledge that the difference between them could not be understood, "Anderson says.

Anderson started volunteering as a member of Free Geek since 2006. He seems to have learned how to retrofit old PCs with classes and practical training by filling in the office of Free Geek for over 1500 hours. Mr. Anderson initially thought that the method of "packing a desktop PC in a container and shipping it to Africa", which was originally thought of, is a disadvantage because the desktop PC is too heavy and transportation is difficult and the transportation cost is also high. So Anderson worked on other projects in Free Geek and decided to hone his skills.


This is the office of Free Geek.


PCs donated by volunteers are stacked everywhere in the room.


And finally in 2013 Mr. Anderson seems to have had the opportunity to repair laptop computer "ThinkPad" and transport it to Africa. ThinkPad's specifications are Intel Pentium M single core processor, RAM is 2 GB, it is an outdated model because it was released 10 years ago, but Free Geek solicited donation from ThinkPad.


Free Geek repaired the ThinkPad by Mr. Anderson, replaced the broken parts, formatted,Linux Mint 17Installed and repaired until it became fully usable. More than 100 ThinkPads repaired so far are said to be.


"Although ThinkPad is not the modern fastest PC, it is enough for children to learn keyboard input and PC operation," Anderson says. Anderson not only teaches computer literacy to children without knowledge about repairing ThinkPad but also provides valuable experience to the organization and members of Free Geek who incorporated the open source technology of Linux It seems to be thought that there is.