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Today's Topics:

1. OT: Charity Hardware Recycling (bblug@gascoigne19.freeserve.co.uk)


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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 11:46:11 -0000
From: <bblug@gascoigne19.freeserve.co.uk>
To: "Bristol and Bath Linux User Group" <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [bristol] OT: Charity Hardware Recycling
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Hi All,



I've been a reader of this LUG for a long time (grew up just outside of
Bristol, and still spend enough time there to keep an eye on local things),
and although I haven't posted in a while, I figured there was a better
chance of one of you knowing the answer to this than anywhere else I've
tried so far.



I run a support unit within The Scout Association, and we're a registered
charity. As such, we're also skint. However, the reason we exist is to
provide internet and technology-based activities at events around the
country, which is where it gets quite expensive and awkward. Our 'standard'
job at events is to run internet cafes and similar stations, but we're
getting to the point where the events are large enough to warrant 20-30
seats and with our current kit (donated desktops, screens etc), both the
power draw (and earth leakage associated with so many switch-mode power
supplies) and the sheer bulk to transport it all is making it really awkward
for us to do events, especially long-distance ones. With this in mind.



Do any of you know of any businesses that are likely to want to donate a
large quantity of (ideally something in the region of 40) laptops with power
supplies? They don't need to have disks in (we use LTSP as our standard
system and it works fantastically well), although we aren't going to say no
if they come with disks. They do need to have working screens and power
cables (batteries are optional, again we aren't bothered if they don't
work), and obviously be serviceable (CPU/memory/motherboard all functional,
NIC too). I'm hoping we can find somewhere that's doing a hardware refresh
and has a set of near-identical machines going, but even if they aren't the
same, any laptops would be better than our current complement of desktops!



As an aside, if anyone knows of any servers (rackmount or tower form factor,
we're easy!) going that are newer than the 11-year-old IBM x346's (and their
even older x345 brothers) that we're currently using for our core servers,
and/or any switching, firewalling or routing kit that's due for replacement
(I've gotta be picky with the switching - it needs to be gigabit, and
ideally have some kind of management in it to be useful to us because we run
multiple VLANS), then I'd be quite happy to bite someone's arm off for that
too!



Thanks in advance, and apologies for such an off-topic query (although we
/do/ run all of our systems on Linux!),



John

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