[NBLUG/talk] corrected link to City of SR tech surplus auctions & Linux Foundation competitor to Google Maps

[Brad Morrison]

Well, I screwed up the first link to the City of Santa Rosa's technology 
auctions 
(https://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/ci.santa-rosa.ca.us,ca/list/current?orgid=14286), 
so while I'm correcting that, here's another story I read this morning 
about an effort coordinated by the Linux Foundation to bring a valid 
competitor to Google Maps into being. It seems to have quite some big 
names attached to the project, but we'll see how much they are willing 
to invest. 
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/linux-amazon-meta-and-microsoft-want-to-break-the-google-maps-monopoly/

I'm sure that Derek will be happy to hear that!

Thanks,

Brad

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> Hi NBLUG,
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> It looks like the City of Santa Rosa has put some more surplus IT
> equipment up for auction -
> https://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/list/current?orgid=270203
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> It also looks like the Sonoma County library system has some IT stuff up
> for auction -https://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/list/current?orgid=270203
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> In case anyone is interested in projects. I'm not sure if there is any
> money in flipping computers/laptops like these, in the same way some
> people buy bikes at garage sales & CL and then resell them...
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> Brad
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