Repair center locations
What this page is
This page is a list of community groups who have offered to start volunteer repair centers once a supply-chain solution is figured out for parts, or once they can figure out their own alternative ways of getting equipment. The groups listed here often have technical knowledge and experience repairing broken computers, usually including XOs. Feel free to list your own group below if you'd like to run a similar endeavor, or partner with other groups in your area. Read Repair and Repair centers first to find out what we're doing!
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 grassroots mailing list.
3. Finally, consider joining OLPC's 60+ Community Support Volunteers who are driving many of these plans forward.
Map of Repair Centers
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Potential locations
Vancouver, Canada
- Contact Scott Nelson (scott.bernhard.nelson AT gmail.com), with the very active Computer Recycling & Linux Users Group Free Geek Vancouver
Boston
- Olin college; see their draft
- documentation, links, etc. to be posted on Olin repair center
Seattle
Bellingham
- Bellingham, WA - ixo via Myna IT Consulting and local Bellingham Linux Users Group (BLUG).
- ( location Bellingham Public Market/Terra Organica days/times TBA. )
Raleigh
- TriLUG has expressed interest.
- Meets at Red Hat, Centennial Park, NC - RLUG
- Contact "sph0lt0n AT gmail DOT com" for info
- Oak Hill Academy has also expressed interest.
DC
- Washington, DC - FFM's LUG
Pittsburgh
- Pittsburgh, PA - ttuttle is starting a users' group at Carnegie Mellon University that may spawn a repair center
Nashville
Middletown
- Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT - Kate Davis
Cincinnati
- Cincinnati, OH - Ian Daniher + Local Highschool + University Team; hosted at resident MegaChurch w/ free wifi, kitchen areas, meeting rooms.
Chicago
- Aurora, IL - IMSA Service Model
- Glenview, IL / Downtown Chicago (temporary) - OLPC Chicago office, starting full-time this summer. Mchua and Nlee will be there.
- Palos Hills, IL - Moraine Valley Community College
Cleveland
- Cleveland, OH - Case Students led by Steve Burns(?) if needed
Southern California
- Orange County, CA - scorche volunteers himself.
Birmingham, AL
- Reitz Industrial Services provides repair facilities. Advice for do-it-yourselfers available. You may also contact Stefan
For thoughts on the sustainability / economical background of such a Repair Center please have a look at these notes.
Europe
- Spare parts exchange
Leiden, The Netherlands
- Contact Marten Vijn
- I repair/recycle XO's
- For more information see:
Nepal
- Teachers Manoj Ghimire and Neema Lama of Bashuki and Bishwamitra pilot schools will manage repair centers for their respective schools
- Contact Bryan Berry of OLE Nepal
- See PHOTOS!
Our GOAL: To expose kids to repairing the XO hardware. A Nepali child will be justifiably wary of taking apart her XO when it is the only computer in her family and the single most expensive possesion in the family. Having spare broken XO's will allow Nepali kids to experiment more freely with the hardware. Additionally, we could expose kids who are not in the pilot grades two and six to the XO.
