Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Free Geek
Today I toured Free Geek, an awesome computer re-habilitation and recycling center here in Portland that has spawned other centers in many cities. It's an amazing facility. They use mostly volunteer labour to process incoming donations, keeping the best parts in order to make computers. They then install Ubuntu linux on the computers and donate them to their volunteers and the community at large. And they run educational classes to teach people how to do all of this and how to use the computers.
I'm going to try to resurrect my flickr account tomorrow, so you can see all the art, but for now you'll just have to stick with these three images, showing the outside, our tour guides, and some of the rehabilitated computers just prior to donation.
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