The Alberta Government's E-waste program only deals with scraping what they get http://www.albertarecycling.ca/ http://environment.gov.ab.ca/info/faqs/faq6-Electronics.asp
Setting up a FreeGeek here would be better for the environment, better for those needing affordable computers, and better for the new volunteers who are learning from it too. Be great if we could give people this choice of a way to donate to a good cause. I see the start up URL bellow is clear on the full guidelines. http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Free_Geek_Startups - Guideline Who is interested in championing this, (in and outside of CLUG)? An alternative could be to do something smaller mostly in CLUG first, to verify how much interest there is here. More opinions on this? Mel On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 12:11 -0600, Scott Thistle wrote: > I would be interested in helping/donating/etc. I guess we contact this > person Kent/Kenter? > > -------------------------- > Scott Thistle > sc...@tekkie.org > http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottthistle > > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Shawn <sgro...@open2space.com> > wrote: > Reposting here for any who may be interested. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [Calgary-Hackspace] Free Geek Calgary? > Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 09:22:29 -0700 (PDT) > From: kenter <kentvu...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: calgary-hacksp...@googlegroups.com > To: Calgary Hackspace <calgary-hacksp...@googlegroups.com> > > Has anyone looked into starting a FreeGeek in Calgary? It is a > non- > profit running in over a dozen cities in North America that > takes in > computers meant for recycle to rebuild into working computers > (salvaging working parts), and to provide computers for low > income > people or other non profits. > > From what I understand, the more established locations don't > rely on > donation money anymore and are completely self sufficient. But > the > actual startup is quite a daunting task due to the need for > storage > space for donated computers. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Geek - Wiki article > > http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Main_Page - The free geek > wiki > http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Free_Geek_Startups - > Guideline for > new startups > > http://freegeekvancouver.org/ - Free geek Vancouver > http://www.freegeek.org/ - Free geek Portland > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > Google > Groups "Calgary Hackspace" group. For list options, visit this > group at > http://groups.google.com/group/calgary-hackspace > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
