[vox] Local Linux-oriented PC recycling efforts?

[Steve Hargadon]

CompuMentor in San Francisco works with most of the non-profit
computer recycling programs around the country.  I spoke at their
national meeting last fall in Chicago.

Jim Lynch is the main contact there.  He and I have talked for a
couple of years about how there is no pc recycling program in the
Sacramento area, and even started to form a non-profit last year to
address this, but I was just too busy workwise.

Steve

On 7/19/05, Karsten M. Self <kmself at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> on Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 06:18:40PM -0700, bullring at gmail.com (bullring at gmail.com) wrote:
> > Karsten M. Self wrote:
> >
> > >I'm aware of several PC recycling efforts around the Bay Area, though
> > >most seem oriented to legacy MS Windows-based rebuilds.  For anyone
> > >aware of efforts geared at turning out GNU/Linux-based systems, please
> > >post details here.
> 
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > I would be very interested in starting a PC recycling program to help
> > resolve this problem.  It would be great to start a recycling effort
> > here in sacramento and use the computers to teach computer repair
> > skills to the local community.  I have been gathering and giving away
> > linux/opensource computers whenever possible for the last few years.
> > If anyone else is interested in starting something like this let me
> > know.
> 
> You might want to check with the Alameda Country Computer Resource
> Center, which seems to coordinate activities with a few similar programs
> around the SF Bay Area.  I'm not familiar with existing Sac area
> programs, but encourage you to check for same.
> 
>     Alameda County Computer Resource Center
>     http://www.accrc.org/
> 
> 
> Peace.
> 
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