TLUG and government grants

[Meng Cheah]

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
>> 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.

I took a look at www.freegeek.org.
You said that they reuse/recycle everything, when you visited.
That is an impressive operation.
Was the troubleshooting, repairing, soldering, etc done by volunteer 
tech/geeks too? I imagine paying marketprice for their skills would be 
prohibitive.

I can see recycling computers at the "just replace the card/board" level 
working with volunteers and minimal staff costs.

Has anyone any experience with Reboot here in Toronto?
I wonder how is their program like.
I am not able to connect to www.reboot.on.ca since last night.
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