Olin university chapter/Repair center

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Purpose

What is the point of having a repair center at Olin? What do we get out of it? What does OLPC get out of it?

• community service that reaches beyond the immediately local community
• contribute meaningfully to OLPC
• deal with everyday repairs that 1cc/OLPC is too busy for
• good technical experience for Olin students

What do we want to avoid?

• complicated logistics
• money, at least in the beginning

Model 1

• repair RMAed machines
  • original owners have already gotten a replacement, no donor associated with a machine
• get parts from 1cc/OLPC or partners
  • could get a small amount of SERV funding towards this, but probably not enough to sustain long-term activity
• redistribute machines to grassroots groups and developers
• handle a fairly small number of machines at any given time
• keep a good work pace, but avoid the stress of deadlines

Model 2

• have customers send broken XO and replacement part(s)
• fix machines and ship back to customers
• financial end may be tricky
  • how do we deal with shipping costs?
  • do we bill customers?

Model 3

• repair RMAed machines and redistribute
• repair donor machines and send back
• logistically, the most complicated
  • probably a lot of work to keep track of