Jan 3, 2014 … 9 Volunteers process 65 computers

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    • 9 Volunteers attended Apple Recycling on frigid Jan 3, 2014 … at the South Side CRC for Goodwill of Southwest PA. We meet every Friday at 2400 Carson Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203 9:30AM – 3:30PM … please join us: http://computereach.com/volunteer.php

    Latino Center receives 1st computers in Spanish

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      • Dave Sevick of Computer Reach and Samantha Murphy, Education Liaison for Allegheny County Department of Human Services delivered 8 Apple iBook computers to The Latino Family Center on the South Side of Pittsburgh. They serve 173 family members from ALL over Allegheny County. Latino residents come from Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Cuba, Uruguay,...

      Record Speed Recycling

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        • This past weekend, we had another great Volunteer Saturday at ITT Tech’s Tarentum campus.  Clocking in at record speeds, we ran diagnostic triage and Edubuntu imaging on a total of 98 computers from 8AM – 4PM. We owe a special thanks to Kim Coles of the County of Westmoreland Mac Users Group (COWMUG) for coming...

        Happy Earth Day!

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          • There are many ways to celebrate Earth Day. You can plant some trees in your community, do litter clean up, or just try to conserve your own energy use. You can also take advantage of electronics recycling! “In 2011, the U.S. electronics recycling industry processed 3 to 4 million tons of used and end-of-life electronics...

          LibrePlanet 2013

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            • Beth Lynn Eicher, a free software expert with fourteen years of free software support experience nationally and abroad, will be a featured speaker at LibrePlanet’s conference at Harvard University this weekend, March 23-24. This annual conference brings together global free software community developers, activists, academics and computer users to promote the distribution of free software...

            Volunteer Work Day at ITT Tech Tarentum

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              •   On Saturday February 23rd, we had our first volunteer work day at ITT Tech in Tarentum, PA. You may have seen our earlier post asking readers to sign up to volunteer with us in this new space the last Saturday of each month. You can still sign up here! We started in our new...

              Week 4 with Duquesne University Volunteers

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                •   This past Friday, we had our fourth workday with volunteers from Duquesne University. You can read about weeks one, two and three in these posts. On February 22nd, We had 2 faculty members and 7 students working at our warehouse. We went beyond de-manufacturing and showed the students our procedures for imaging Macs with...

                Day 1 with Duquesne University Volunteers

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                  • We had our first day of work with volunteers from Duquesne University on Friday. Five students from Lorraine Sauchin’s Elements of Computer Science class came to the warehouse to help us demanufacture computers for reuse. They were joined by our CRC Goodwill recycling regulars. We look forward to having Duquesne students with us every Friday...

                  Read: How to Bridge the Digital Divide with Broken Computers

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                    • We recently came across this article that highlights how we can bridge the digital divide, and get more people of every income level using computers in their homes and at work. It’s always astonishing how many perfectly usable computers and electronic devices are thrown away. The Exploration Station in Grover Beach, California refurbishes used computers...