[Grassroots-l] repairing/recycling centre model in Leiden, the Netherlands, Europe

[Marten Vijn]

Dear all,

As suggest on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair_centers here my posting
about my model:

My assumtions (so correct me if I am wrong):
- no spare can be ordered yet
- different parts fail / get broken.
- parts are exchangable

My environment:
- some soft/hardware hackers 
- limited space (my living room 2x month) informal tech meeting where
reparing can be on the agenda. 
- some tools (disabsembling, solder, mutlimeters) internet. (no scopes,
jtag tools jet)

Finance:
- getting parts from broken XO's that are send/brought.
- shipping costs by senders, receivers.


Online documentation registration:
- parts wanted/availble
- dissambeld / repaired XO

like:http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Europe/Repairing


Scaling up:
Since there hardly XO in europe, it is rather quite now.
I see two models:

lowlevel (< 5 per cell) week:
- create more cells or get community space (University, Schools, ?)
- copy above model per town/neigbourhood
- train people in skills/knowlegde


doing > 20 XO a week 
create a student training program:
- helpdesk
- hardware debugging
- linux systems network administration


kind regards,
Marten

 











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Marten Vijn
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