[BBLISA] Wanted: crappy old laptops

[Dean Anderson]

Is it really evidence if its on a laptop? :-P

		--Dean

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Chris Palmer wrote:

> 
> Greetings folks, 
> 
> I'm looking for donations of old laptops (ones that your company cycled out,
> etc).  These laptops will only be used to display PDFs and word documents; they
> do not have to be at all special performancewise.
> 
> The donations would be tax deductible, and will go to benefit the Lexington HS
> Debate team, and indirectly the environment.  
> 
> Email me separately if you or your company would be willing to donate
> laptop(s).  We're looking for a bunch of them (20 would be perfect).  They can
> certainly be a hodgepodge of hardware and OSen.  
> 
> -Chris
> 
> THE EXPLANATION:
> 
> You probably know that in my other life, I'm a debate coach.  Traditionally
> debate consumes massive amounts of paper; each debater would bring a large
> Rubbermaid tub full of evidence, cuttings, speeches, and other material to
> every tournament.  That's a lot of printouts, and recently, a lot of airline
> baggage fees too. 
> 
> Recently debate teams have started to convert to paperless debate.  That means
> all the evidence is kept on laptops.  The catch is, you also must provide your
> opponents in a debate round with copies of the evidence and positions you read
> so they may prepare to refute them.  With paper copies, that was trivial; with
> electronic stuff, it isn't anymore.  Passing around jump drives is time
> consuming and failure prone, especially among not particularly tech savvy
> debaters and kids.  Not all opponents can be expected to bring their own
> laptops to tournaments at all. 
> 
> The accepted solution is that paperless teams must provide a "viewing computer"
> to their opponents loaded up with the evidence and material they are going to
> present in the round.  That's what we're asking for here, is laptops to use for
> viewing, which is why they don't have to be very good. 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -C
> 
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