Repair center locations

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Introduction

This page is a list of community groups who have started (or are in the process of starting) grassroots repair centers. The groups listed here often have technical knowledge and experience repairing broken computers, usually including XOs. Please read Repair and Repair centers first to find out what we're doing, and feel free to list your own group in the appropriate section below.

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

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

Nepal

The Netherlands

France

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.