<div dir="ltr">I'd be interested in helping out sometime next week after Wednesday, let me know if I can be of assistance.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Cheers,<div>Keefer</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 October 2014 02:30, Paul Nijjar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
As some of you saw during The Event That Must Not Be Named, Computer<br>
Recycling houses a lot of laptops. We would like to sell these<br>
laptops, except:<br>
<br>
- They take a lot of work to get ready<br>
- We cannot charge much for them (because most of them have dead<br>
batteries)<br>
- We cannot offer warranties on them because getting replacement parts<br>
is difficult and expensive.<br>
<br>
Thus they have been sitting and rotting, which is a CRIME.<br>
<br>
We would like to make some of these laptops available to the public<br>
instead of e-wasting them. But to do this we need some additional<br>
help, so I thought about asking the KWLUG community to pitch in. Would<br>
you (or somebody you know?) be willing to lend a hand in getting<br>
laptops ready for sale?<br>
<br>
I do not know whether we are thinking of trying a giant work party or<br>
a more sustainable set of regular shifts.<br>
<br>
The tasks involved are:<br>
- Going through the laptops<br>
- Identifying ones that are good candidates for sale<br>
- Making sure laptop hard drives are wiped<br>
- Doing some limited testing of components<br>
- Listing system specs and laptop deficiencies<br>
- Matching laptops to power supplies<br>
- (possibly?) installing Xubuntu on the laptops to be sold (there is<br>
another idea floating around that we sell bare hardware to drive<br>
home the point that we are selling these laptops as-is, with no<br>
warranty and no repairs).<br>
<br>
Is anybody interested?<br>
<br>
If nobody is interested then it is likely that almost all of our<br>
laptops will just go into the e-waste pile, which is a crying shame.<br>
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- Paul<br>
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