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

[Keefer Rourke]

I'd be interested in helping out sometime next week after Wednesday, let me
know if I can be of assistance.

Cheers,
Keefer

On 2 October 2014 02:30, 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
>
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