Call for salvaged hardware!

Pete Lancashire pete-6NP59FE1ho9MFQD/ygXjfdBPR1lH4CV8 at public.gmane.org
Wed Dec 9 18:16:21 UTC 2009


The org I mentioned in Portland has (had?) a CD that I think has
a section on helping set up sister organizations. If no
longer available I'm sure I can get someone there to give
a few pointers on their successes. I helped lay the ground
work getting the City of Portland to donate all their cast
offs.

It is not uncommon for them to get from a corporation
in a single donation 100 identical Dell/HP/etc PC's only 3
years old.

-pete

> How about putting out a general notice and seeing how many groups could
> send a representative to a gathering in the "Cafe".
>
> There is a ton of hardware out there.  Many companies just send it to
> the junk yard because they do not know how to dispose of it without
> costing an arm and a leg.  I have found two in the last two weeks.  Jon
> is going to put together something for me to use in order to show the
> companies what a good Samaritans they could be.
>
> If we all new who the groups doing the same thing were, what their focus
> is, we would have a better chance of advertising and getting more "left
> overs".  Helping one another helps all!
> Maureen
>
>
> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 22:42 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 14:38 -0500, Colin McGregor wrote:
>> > On 12/7/09, Matt Price <matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> > > some of you may remember that years ago I taught a linux-focussed
>> "build
>> > > your own computer" course using salvaged hardware. I'm reviving this
>> > > course in the new year at a downtown elementary school, and am
>> looking
>> > > for parts for 15 or 16 systems that school kids will build up,
>> install
>> > > ubuntu on, and learn to use.  If it's successful, I'm hoping to
>> expand
>> > > the program out into a bunch of neighbourhood schools, and maybe get
>> a
>> > > kind of computer club going where kids learn a little bit of
>> programming
>> > > and systems administrations.
>> > >
>> > > Anyway, that said:  i thought I had a line on a substantial supply,
>> but
>> > > my source has fallen through.  So I'm putting out a general plea for
>> > > hardware -- boxes, parts, monitors, keyboards, mice, etc...
>> Meanwhile
>> > > I'll keep plying my other connections as well.
>> > >
>> > Okay...
>> >
>> > I've been involved with Jon Alexander in doing some computer
>> > give-aways at a local food bank, where my role has been to do some
>> > introductory Linux education (the machines go out the door with Ubuntu
>> > installed). C. Martens in in the process of setting up something
>> > quasi-similar. Lee Andrew MacNeil is interested in other projects
>> > centred around keeping old machines out of landfills.
>> >
>> > So, what I see here is multiple projects looking at ways of helping
>> > people who need computers, get them free. So, next question, all these
>> > projects have an on-going need for computer equipment. Question is,
>> > how can these projects and people help each other?
>>
>> Colin, I think you're asking a really important question.  I was just
>> talking to John this afternoon about this very thing -- the
>> proliferation of similar projects that's happening right now (and I'd
>> actually include things like Hacklab in this list, too, even if its
>> focus is a little bit further out from the central cluster that binds
>> the rest of us together).  I think we should think about trying to work
>> together, at least in a loose, informal way; and about what the precise
>> scope and ambition of each project is, and how we might support each
>> other.
>>
>> I'd really like to hear what other people have to say.  Thanks for
>> raising this issue, Colin!
>>
>> Matt
>>
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