<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412776336866_159686"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412776336866_159703">I am in, Most evenings and most Saturdays mornings</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412776336866_159685"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412776336866_159684"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412776336866_159683">I am sure there will be need for more than one session, so I am sure there will be a slot where I can help.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412776336866_159684"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412776336866_159684"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412776336866_159704">Regarding the batteries:</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412776336866_159684"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412776336866_159684"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412776336866_159705">I agree, it is better to refer them to where they can buy them (ebay or otherwise) than to be the middleman(or woman)</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412776336866_159684"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412776336866_159684"><span>Regards,</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412776336866_159673"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412776336866_159672">Raul Suarez
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<br>An eclectic collection of random thoughts</div></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, October 2, 2014 2:30 AM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><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><br>- Paul <br><br>-- <br>All-candidates meetings:<br><a href="http://www.waterlooregion.org/municipal-elections-2014" target="_blank">http://www.waterlooregion.org/municipal-elections-2014</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kwlug-disc mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a><br><a href="http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org" target="_blank">http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>