TLUG and government grants

[Evan Leibovitch]

James Knott wrote:

>>I don't know about the Toronto project, but the Portland FreeGeek
>>project has a very elaborate way to sort, test and classify incoming
>>hardware as re-usable or not. The first priority is to try to reuse
>>things, especially those which can be brought back to life with a new
>>capacitor here or a new power supply there.
>>    
>>
>
>The problem with this, is that the labour to do this often costs more
>than the finished product is worth.
>
Not if you're using volunteer help.

As I mentioned in an earlier mail, at FreeGeek people "earn" their 
computers with 24 hours of their time.

- Evan
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