I saw on the internet the otherday some people talking about another LUG in another
area doing a Windows Return Drive.
People could bring in their systems, return windows, and get linux installed and
configured on their systems.
There was some feedback, some people saying, why would I want to give you a $100 cdrom
for a $2 cdrom?
The LUGgers said, 'We *don't* want your Windows CDROM. This is an opportunity to get
Linux fully configured on your system. We'll help you for free.'
Pretty much what we do at the clinic, but this is a thought pattern that can be used
for promoting.
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 09:52:22AM -0800, Ralph Zeller wrote:
> It might be a fun and visible way to promote Linux by co-sponsoring an
> event like this sometime.
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> As seen in the "Drain Enterprise" on 1/4/01:
>
> "Recycle your old computer!" collection event January 13th
> A computer recycling event will be held Saturday, January 13th from
> 10:00a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the National Guard Armory, 111 General Avenue in
> Roseburg. Any unwanted computers, work-ing or not, keyboards, mice,
> monitors, printers and other peripherals will be accepted from the general
> public at the one-day collec-tion event. Businesses can bring their unwanted
> computer equipment to this same location on Friday January 12th. Please call
> 440-4350 for more details.
> This event is being sponsored by Douglas High School StRUT (Students
> Recycling Used Technology), Douglas County Waste Reduction, and the Oregon
> Army National Guard. Reusable computer components will be refurbished by
> Douglas High School students and given to qualified recipients. All
> nonreusable components will be sent to the state StRUT headquarters and
> recycled.
> Oregon is one of eight states participating in StRUT, helping educate
> students in the used of technology and recycling through hands-on experience
> in building and repairing donated equipment. Douglas High School joined the
> program in 1999. According to Candy Robinson, Career Center and StRUT
> Coordinator, "the second year of the program is drawing quite an
> enthusiastic group of students." Many of the students will be working at the
> events collecting, evaluating, and packing computers for transport. In
> addition, they plan to host a computer "boneyard" corner at the public event
> where visitors can disassemble non-reusable computers to see the inner workings
> With the number of obsolete computers increasing each year, estimated at 500
> million by 2007, the hazardous materials contained in the equipment pose
> significant disposal problems. For example, each monitor contains 3 to 8
> pounds of lead. Therefore, keeping this equipment out of the land-fill and
> put back into use or recycled yields many long-range benefits.
