[linux] Fwd: BookCrossing News & Whatnot - Spring Hire (fwd)

[Richard Lotz]

For anyone with tech books gathering dust on their shelves...

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> STILL TIME TO SHIP TECH BOOKS TO IRAQ
>
> This is your last chance to release your no-longer-needed computer
> books to Iraq! They must arrive by next Friday!
>
> BookCrossing and the Freedom Technology Center of Mountain View,
> California are teaming up to help jump-start Iraq's infrastructure
> recovery with computer software and hardware book donations.
> Volunteers will meet at Mountain View's Freedom Technology Center all
> day Friday, March 26 to pack and ship badly-needed computer books to
> Iraq. Today in Baghdad, up-to-date PC hardware and software are
> readily available, but computer books are not. Iraq's new techies need
> books to learn.
>
> How can you help? By shipping computer tech books to their California
> office so they arrive within the next 2 weeks! So go ahead, look on
> your shelves - anything related to computers will help. Register and
> then release them to:
>
> Freedom Technology Center
> 278 Hope St. Suite E
> Mountain View, California 94041-1308 USA
>
> Let's show them the generosity and responsiveness of the BookCrossing
> community, and have some fun tracking the progress of the books in
> Iraq along the way!
>
> Read the official press release:
> http://www.bookcrossing.com/pr/freedom-tech-iraq-2004.html
>
>
-richard

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