And as we are spread around the world, distribution through local affiliates would be less
of a logistics problem in many cases.
Cheers,
Peter
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From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of James
Heilman
Sent: Friday, 17 March 2017 10:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Hardware donation program
Many of us also get newer laptops while the older ones are still functional. I bet their
are many community members who would also be happy to donate to such a program.
James
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
wrote:
Sounds like a nice thought :) But maybe first go
through this round,
and see how that works out? It sounds like a big challenge, and I'm
really curious how they are going to limit overhead. It still sounds
like a big project to me. So lets reduce the amount of community
requests that may make it more complicated to a minimum :P
If it works well, maybe you could look for some community member(s)
that want to help in scaling it up a bit?
Best,
Lodewijk
2017-03-17 18:19 GMT+01:00 Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan(a)gmail.com>om>:
I wonder if it would make sense to solicit 3rd
party laptop
donations for this program? E.g. some businesses may be happy to
donate their old
laptops
to Wikipedia volunteers... I am not sure how big
of an overhead it
would be, but if WMF is already doing it, 20 vs 200 might not be a
significant difference (?) .
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 1:14 PM Michael Maggs <Michael(a)maggs.name>
wrote:
> Thank you Asaf. Did you know that there is already a Commons page
> for Community donations?
>
>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Equipment_exchange
>
> It would be worth linking your new Meta page to the existing one.
>
> Michael
>
> > Asaf Bartov <mailto:abartov@wikimedia.org>
> > 17 March 2017 at 6:06 am
> > Dear Wikimedians,
> >
> > The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce a small new
> > program
> called
> > the Hardware Donation Program. In a word, it is a program
> > designed to donate depreciated (but fully working) hardware from
> > the WMF office
to
community members who would put it to good use.
The program, including instructions on how to apply, is
described on
Meta,
> here:
>
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hardware_donation_program
>
> Please read the information carefully. I especially encourage
> you to
pay
> > attention to the program's design considerations, which
> > determine
most
of
> > the decisions we'll be making.
> >
> > We currently have approximately 20 laptops ready to be donated.
> > Applications are welcome.
> >
> > The upcoming Wikimedia Conference in Berlin (in about two weeks)
would
be
> > an excellent opportunity to deliver some of those laptops in
> > person
to
> > approved applications, so if you think
you might be interested,
> > I'd encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
> >
> > Please also help spread the word about this program, by
> > forwarding
this
> > e-mail to other Wikimedia lists
you're on, and posting the link
> > to
the
> > program page on village pumps and
*community* (not public)
> > social
media
>
channels or other communication forms you use.
>
> Special thanks to User:Anntinomy from Wikimedia Ukraine, who had
> the
idea
of asking
about possible donation of older machines from WMF,
and
inspired
> this program.
>
> Mini-FAQ:
>
> Q: Why are you doing this?
> A: WMF's Office IT determines a lifetime for work machines, and
regularly
> replaces older machines. This creates a
stock of older, working
machines,
> > that are available for donation. We can donate them locally to
> > San Francisco charities, but figure that if we can find low-cost
> > ways to deliver them to our own community members, that's so much better.
> >
> > Q: Am I eligible?
> > A: Read the fine program documentation.
> >
> > Q: If I'm eligible, am I guaranteed a donated laptop?
> > A: no.
> >
> > Q: Once these 20 laptops are donated, will there be others?
> > A: yes, eventually.
> >
> > Q: How can you ensure people would use the machines for
> > Wikimedia purposes?
> > A: We can't. We'll be making a good-effort assessment of the
likelihood
of
> Wikimedia use, and make a decision to donate (or not) the equipment.
Once
> donated, the equipment no longer belongs to
WMF. We encourage,
> but
can't
> enforce, reporting on impact achieved using
the equipment.
>
> Q: I need a few laptops for my event in two weeks! Can I get
> them
through
> > this program?
> > A: No. Read the fine program documentation.
> >
> > Q: I'm really happy about this!
> > A: So are we! :)
> >
> > Q: I'm really angry about this!
> > A: So it goes.
> >
> > Q: I have more questions!
> > A: Hit 'Reply'. :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Asaf
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