How Can I Donate Old Hardware to Developers?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday July 21, 2005 @10:26AM from the forlorn-hardware-seeks-good-home dept.

olddoc asks: "I have a computer I'd like to get rid of. It is still pretty useful for a developer, being a fairly powerful dual Athlon MP box, but there is no Microsoft OS on it so most charities in the area don't want it. I live in Eastern Pennsylvania, USA and I'm sure there are dozens of people who are developing GPL or BSD licensed software, who would be happy to get their hands on it. If my old computer is used to help develop free software, I'll get all warm and fuzzy inside. If I get a tax deduction for it so much the better. Does anyone know how to give a worthy project a hardware gift?"

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Send it to me. by Photar · 2005-07-21 11:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

photar at gmail DOT com

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ImageMagick by O.W.M · 2005-07-22 00:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I've built a media database for a customer where you drop originals in a folder to be converted to different sizes/formats for web/print and indexed in a database.

The script is written in VBScript to script ImageMagick to process the images but a combination of ImageMagick and any scripting language (even .bat-files) would do.

ImageMagick is quite powerful and really easy to work with so you can whip up really neat things in notime.