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

[Marten Vijn]

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 12:57 -0500, Mel Chua wrote:
> The following is my understanding of the situation, but I don't know 
> more than you do. ;)
> 
> > - no spare can be ordered yet
              ^parts
> 
> There are RMA'd machines that are available, but scarce (compared to 
> total # of laptops "in the wild.") Contacting Adam Holt (holt at laptop 
> dot org) is the best way to find out and (hopefully eventually) get 
> some. 

nice, I am getting broken one from gemany, More spare sparts is better.
When have clear what is broken,I will mail phone Adam Holt to get the
rigth parts.


> A longer-term solution for more consistently getting parts is 
> being worked out.
> 
> > - different parts fail / get broken.
> 
> With different frequencies, though - ripped/sticky keyboards are more 
> common than, say, antennae snapping off.

Statistics would would be nice :). Is there already a place for ?


> 
> > - parts are exchangable
> 
> Between XOs, yes.
> 
> > My environment:
> 
> Thanks for writing a proposal! I've posted this on 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Europe/Repairing for easier public access 
> (if you've posted it before, feel free to move/delete it. :)

I move it to:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Repair_centers

since the request came from there.


thanks for your input!

kind regards,
Marten