[kwlug-disc] Volunteer help wanted: save some laptops!

[Bob Jonkman]

I'm good for s giant work party some Saturday near the end of October, beginning of November

--Bob

Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>As some of you saw during The Event That Must Not Be Named, Computer
>Recycling houses a lot of laptops. We would like to sell these
>laptops, except: 
>
>- They take a lot of work to get ready
>- We cannot charge much for them (because most of them have dead
>  batteries)
>- We cannot offer warranties on them because getting replacement parts
>  is difficult and expensive.
>
>Thus they have been sitting and rotting, which is a CRIME. 
>
>We would like to make some of these laptops available to the public
>instead of e-wasting them. But to do this we need some additional
>help, so I thought about asking the KWLUG community to pitch in. Would
>you (or somebody you know?) be willing to lend a hand in getting
>laptops ready for sale? 
>
>I do not know whether we are thinking of trying a giant work party or
>a more sustainable set of regular shifts. 
>
>The tasks involved are: 
>- Going through the laptops
>- Identifying ones that are good candidates for sale
>- Making sure laptop hard drives are wiped
>- Doing some limited testing of components
>- Listing system specs and laptop deficiencies
>- Matching laptops to power supplies
>- (possibly?) installing Xubuntu on the laptops to be sold (there is
>  another idea floating around that we sell bare hardware to drive
>  home the point that we are selling these laptops as-is, with no
>  warranty and no repairs). 
>
>Is anybody interested?
>
>If nobody is interested then it is likely that almost all of our
>laptops will just go into the e-waste pile, which is a crying shame. 
>
>- Paul 
>
>-- 
>All-candidates meetings:
>http://www.waterlooregion.org/municipal-elections-2014
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>kwlug-disc mailing list
>kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
>http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://kwlug.org/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/attachments/20141002/b849d36d/attachment.htm>