Repair center locations
Introduction
This page is a list of community groups and grassroots businesses who have started (or are in the process of starting) repair centers. The groups listed are separate from OLPC, but generally have great technical knowledge and experience to repair broken computers, usually including XOs.
For common problems, read our FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions).
Please read Repair and Repair centers to understand how volunteers made this happen, and feel free to list your own group in the appropriate section below.
Spare Parts
Main article Spare parts
Outside of repair centers, many spare parts are also for sale separately at http://xoexplosion.com and http://ilovemyxo.com, EG. if you're the kind of person that prefers to to fix your own XO Laptop.
Map of repair centers
See Map of repair centers - please add your location to the map if you have a repair center!
Current repair centers
List alphabetically by country, then by state/province, then by city, then by group. Please put a single link to your repair center's main page, and put all the information about your repair center there.
USA
- Cincinnati, OH - OLPCinci
- Washington, DC - OLPC DC Repair
- Miami, FL - Sunshine Repair Group, Inc.
- Cambridge, MA - Cambridge repair center
- Needham, MA - Olin repair center
- Bellingham, WA - Bellingham repair center (BLIXO)
- New York, NY - New York Repair Center Organized by Blaketh
Potential repair centers
List alphabetically by country, then by state/province, then by city, then by group. Please only put a single link to your repair center's page, along with a link to contact information if you have it.
Canada
- Vancouver - Scott Nelson (scott.bernhard.nelson AT gmail.com) from the Computer Recycling & Linux Users Group Free Geek Vancouver wants to start a repair center.
USA
- Birmingham, AL - Birmingham repair center via Reitz Industrial Services and Stefan
- Orange County, CA - scorche
- Middletown, CT - Middletown Childrens Project at Wesleyan University via Kate Davis
- Aurora, IL - IMSA Service Model
- Glenview, IL - ILXO office
- Palos Hills, IL - Moraine Valley Community College
- Raleigh, NC - TriLUG and Oak Hill Academy via Steve Holton.
- Pittsburgh, PA - Carnegie Mellon University via ttuttle
- Nashville, TN - MTSU via kfx
- Seattle, WA - SeaXO
Nepal
- Bashuki - School repair center managed by Manoj Ghimire, contact Bryan Berry of OLE Nepal
- Bishwamitra - School repair center managed by Neema Lama, contact Bryan Berry of OLE Nepal
The Netherlands
- Leiden - Spare parts repair via Marten Vijn
France
- Paris - OLPC France Repair Center at /tmp/lab, contact our mailing list
Get Involved! Meet Others who will Support You!
1. Please email < holt AT laptop DOT org > your phone number, to discuss your plans! Include a basic outline of your repair center proposal, and which business model(s) and/or volunteering model(s) you are considering towards sustainability. Be sure to include all the best times of the week when you want OLPC to call you back.
2. Grassroots organizers of Community Repair Centers are strongly encouraged to discuss their plans and share their successes on the repairs mailing list and grassroots mailing list.
3. Finally, consider joining OLPC's 80+ Community Support Volunteers who are driving many of these plans forward.
