<div dir="ltr">I will try to make it out. I can bring my own tools if that helps...<br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 3 Nov 2015 at 15:10 Paul Nijjar <<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Originally I had proposed Nov 7 for a Computer Recycling laptop rescue<br>
day, but it would work better (for me, if nobody else) to hold it on<br>
the 21st.<br>
<br>
For those unfamiliar: Computer Recycling (at The Working Centre) gets<br>
in all kinds of laptops, but for a few reasons it is not<br>
economical to refurbish them as part of general CR sales. (The biggest<br>
problem is that we cannot offer warranties on the laptops because we<br>
have no replacement parts.) Last year some of us got together to<br>
prepare some of these laptops for sale, and scrapping laptops that<br>
were not appropriate.<br>
<br>
We pick out laptops, match them with power supplies, make sure they<br>
have wiped hard drives installed, use an autoinstaller to put on<br>
Xubuntu GNU/Linux, and test the machines for things like battery life,<br>
sound, wireless, and video abilities. None of this requires pre-existing<br>
knowledge much beyond using a screwdriver, but there is a fair amount<br>
that we learn along the way (and being familiar with computers and<br>
Linux is definitely an asset, especially when trying to get wireless<br>
cards and sound cards to work).<br>
<br>
Interest fizzled out by summer, but now that it is winter I am<br>
wondering whether people are again interested in helping out.<br>
<br>
The date would be Saturday November 21.<br>
<br>
The time would be the afternoon, starting at 4pm and going until 8pm<br>
or whenever people have had enough. (You would not need to be there<br>
right at 4pm; coming in later in the afternoon would be fine.)<br>
<br>
The location would be Computer Recycling, at 66 Queen Street South in<br>
Kitchener.<br>
<br>
If you are interested then please RSVP. This helps me get a sense of<br>
how many tools we need, and lets me tell you how to get into the<br>
building.<br>
<br>
Ideally it would be nice to have five or more people participating in<br>
this, but I will probably be present on the 21st regardless.<br>
<br>
If the 21st is bad (or Saturdays are bad) then I am completely open to<br>
scheduling something for a different weekday evening, but you have to<br>
make suggestions for when and we have to make sure we have enough<br>
people RSVPing to make the additional session worthwhile.<br>
<br>
- Paul<br>
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