Taking the barrier to entry to computing culture down to zero, reducing toxic waste products and landfill from "redundant" computers, and in the meantime challenging the corporate-fuelled drive towards selling bigger, faster computers, Trash Tech collectives gather old computers, rebuild and repair the hardware, and then install free software such as GNU/Linux and its many many useful packages to make desktop and server systems for community use.
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Just a few examples of initiatives in Europe:
Redundant Technology Initiative (RTI), Sheffield, UK
Access space, training and art projects
www.lowtech.org
ASCII cafe, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Access space, courses
squat.net/ascii
Community Linux Training Centre,
UK portable facility of 6 laptops running Linux
www.fraw.org.uk/cltc
Cyerpipe, Slovenia
Information, meetings, events
www.cyberpipe.org
Access to Recycled Technology, UK
Residencies, training, community projects
www.a2rt.org
Seeds for Change, UK
Training for activists, online resources, events
www.seedsforchange.org