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Somewhere, in amongst all this, I’ve been volunteering at Free Geek. And, it must be said, having a fabulous time. I spent last Thursday dismantling the computers that are being scrapped. Open the case, remove the power supply, remove the motherboard, remove the RAM, the battery, the processor and heatsink. Put it all in separate [...]

So it took rather longer than anticipated but I finally got to pay a visit to Free Geek Vancouver at the weekend for my introductory volunteer training session (and also to donate a trunk full of unwanted hardware of my own). First impressions? Besides the rather unsavory neighbourhood (two blocks North of Hastings, just East [...]

I was at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival at the weekend and ran across a stall for Free Geek. They’re a volunteer organization that takes people’s unwanted old computers, strips them down, ethically recycles the unusable parts, takes the reusable parts and builds them into fresh computers. Then loads Ubuntu onto them and sells them [...]