[OLPC-SF] SF-Repair Center

[Sameer Verma]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Joachim Pedersen <joachimp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The link gets mangled and gets concatenated with your signature.
>>> Here's the link that Joachim intended.
>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SF_Repair
> Thanks Sameer! I forgot to insert some white space after that newline.
>
>> i'd like to participate.
>> jim
> Great! Sameer and I are both near SF state. Does coming to SFSU work
> for you? So far I only have one XO to fix. But we will be getting some
> broken XO's from OLPC for a parts stock seed sometime soon. Maybe some
> one else out there on the OLPC-SF list has XO issues?
>
> As far as computer repair skill is concerned the XO is pretty easy, if
> you have ever successfully assembled ikea furniture, or installed a
> new harddrive/videocard/etc... in your computer, you are more than
> qualified to repair an XO. Those with a steady hand, and those who are
> willing to learn are also very much welcome to join us!

Hi Joachim,

While the Ikea analogy is fairly close, how about a real demo at the
next OLPC-SF meeting? Maybe others can bring a Philips screwdriver
with them and take apart their own XOs?

Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/