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Tasks I'm working on as [[Hardware Grants Coordinator]] that aren't recorded on my job description/need greater detail for practical purposes:
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*Update the website with successfully completed grants. See http://www.freegeek.org/category/news/grants/
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http://gallery.freegeek.org/albums/Reception/FG_Portland_105.sized.jpg
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*Forward hardware grant requests from PPS schools to Jed Gilchrist jgilchri at pps dot k12 dot or dot us, senior manager of techinical operations at Portland Public Schools. He is to know of PPS requests BEFORE we act on them, and we need to hear from him BEFORE we act on the requests!
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*Updating the hardware grants application using [[Lime Survey]]
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*Periodically collecting satisfaction reports from past grant recipients
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**1st round: February 4th, 2010 (e-mailed to recipients who got grants in the past two years) I created a report with the data from this one
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**2nd round: August 10th, 2010 (e-mailed to recipients who got grants in the past five months)
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*Work with Hardware Grants volunteer Tom to create a mural for outreach purposes
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*Regularly check in on waiting list gizmos to ensure items marked ready are actually there
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**Example: A comment in RT says "3 laptops ready" but only 2 are there
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*Make comments in RT for LCDs and CRTs that are ready
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*Re-allocate items that have been over-allocated
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**Example: An organization requests 3 LCDs, the maximum; but 4 are ready on the shelf. I will re-allocate the 4th.
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*Re-stock hardware grants goods, including keyboards, mice, cables, etc.
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*'''Take note of what we can/can't give out, keep volunteers in the loop'''
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**Example: we currently have a CRT shortage, so I made a waiting list that hardware grants folks use
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**RAM
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**HDDs
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**Network devices
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**Etc.
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*Maintain positive professional relationships with past grant recipients
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**E-mails asking how their computers are working out with invitations to tech support for issues
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**Asking if they need anything else
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**Not making them fill out tickets over and over when we can just re-open them
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**Going off-site when appropriate to take classes, check out computer labs, etc.
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*Work with Dave to make FG-PDX reports - ask Dave about this one
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*Verify data entry is being completed accurately by volunteers and myself occasionally by double-checking the database
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**Merging, editing, or deleting disbursements when necessary
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*Put FREE GEEK stickers on laptops
  
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==Life To Do==
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Looking in my home folder on ryukin may yield some useful documents, not too sure about this, but just in case something's missing.
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* Remember that stress is normal
 
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* Don't get roped into things
 
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* Be peaceful
 
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* Study communism or something that seems like what I think it is
 
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* Go camping
 
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* Make chillins happy
 
  
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==Books to Read==
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NOTE: A lot of procedures CAN BE CHANGED just through discussion - the only "policy" we have is the 3 laptops/LCDs per 90 days policy. Discussion with volunteers, interns, and other staff can help better hardware grants, AND changing things in the production meeting or holding special hardware grants meetings.
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* ''Savages'' by Joe Kane
 
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* ''Talisman'' by Stephen King
 
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* ''The Sex Lives of Cannibals : Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific'' by J. Maarten Troost
 
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* ''Thomas Covenant'' series
 
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* Isaac Asimov stuff
 
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* ''Cheese Monkeys''
 
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* ''Stranger in a Strange Land''
 
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* Kinsey!
 
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* ''The Lucifer Principle''
 
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* ''Sewer, Gas, and Electric'' by Matt Ruff
 
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* Gods Debris
 
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* ''Invisible Man'' by Ralph Ellison
 
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==RD E-waste==
 
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* In the United States, nonresidential consumers with large quantities of used monitors are subject to federal regulations for managing this equipment as hazardous wastes under the 1976 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA; 42 U.S.C. 6901) '''Businesses that use small quantities of CRTs and residential CRT owners are exempt from these requirements.'''
 
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* In addition to RCRA, commercial and industrial generators of electronic waste also must be concerned with the liability provisions in the 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA; 42 U.S.C. 9601), which addresses the release of hazardous materials and the future remediation of toxic waste sites. The desire to avoid future liability has led a few commercial organizations to develop alternative methods—such as leasing agreements—for shifting the responsibility for managing EOL electronic equipment back to the manufacturers.
 
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* In Florida, CRTs are designated as hazardous waste and subject to strict regulations on storage and transport if they are landfilled or incinerated but not if they are recycled or used to make other commercial products. In Massachusetts, the Department of Environmental Protection banned the disposal of CRTs from its landfills and incinerators beginning in April 2000 and established CRT collection and recycling programs (Northeast Recycling Council, 2001). Under these programs, several communities received grants to fund the initial year of a local recycling program. In January 2001, the state also received authorization from EPA to exempt intact CRTs destined for reuse or recycling from hazardous waste regulations (for extensive discussion, see Federal Register, 2000). California banned televisions and computer monitors from landfill disposal in 2001 and in 2002, California state legislators proposed new policies to promote recycling and recovery of e-waste ( Totten and Glenn, 2002).
 
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* In 2002, the US EPA issued a proposed regulation to remove existing barriers to CRT recycling by exempting CRTs destined for glass-to-glass recycling from hazardous waste regulations under RCRA.
 
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* The European Parliament introduced two directives related to electronic waste in 2000 that are expected to receive final approval in the spring 2003. The first—The Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment—aims to reduce the generation of and encourage the reuse and recycling of electronic waste ( European Commission, 2000). The directive requires that 60–80% of electronic equipment be recovered and recycled by manufacturers by the end of 2005.
 
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* The second—The Directive on the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment—aims to minimize the risks and environmental impact of the treatment and disposal of electronic waste (European Commission, 2000). This second directive will phase out the use of hazardous substances—lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs) and poly brominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs)—in electronic products by 2006.
 
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[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12767859&dopt=Citation]
 
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* In 2005 soil samples in near an e-waste recycling facility in Guiyu, Guangdong, China were tested for PBDE (polybrominated diphenyl ethers), which are hazardous flame retardants with a "high bioaccumulation potential". [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15946727&dopt=Citation] "There is growing evidence that indicates these chemicals may possess liver toxicity, thyroid toxicity, and neurodevelopmental toxicity" [http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2001/dec/science/kb_pbde.html]
 
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http://gallery.freegeek.org/albums/Reception/FG_Portland_104.sized.jpg
 
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==References==
 
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* Molly Macauley, Karen Palmer and Jhih-Shyang Shih, "Dealing with electronic waste: modeling the costs and environmental benefits of computer monitor disposal," ''Journal of Environmental Management''68, Issue 1, May 2003, Pages 13-22.
 
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* Dongli Wang, Zongwei Cai, Guibin Jiang, Anna Leung, Ming H. Wong, Wai Kwok Wong, "Determination of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in soil and sediment from an electronic waste recycling facility," ''Chemosphere'' 60, May 2005, Pages 810-816
 
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* Kellyn S. Betts, "Bioaccumulative and Toxic Chemicals Rapidly rising PBDE levels in North America," ''Science News'', December 7, 2001
 

Latest revision as of 14:54, 30 November 2010

Tasks I'm working on as Hardware Grants Coordinator that aren't recorded on my job description/need greater detail for practical purposes:

  • Update the website with successfully completed grants. See http://www.freegeek.org/category/news/grants/
  • Forward hardware grant requests from PPS schools to Jed Gilchrist jgilchri at pps dot k12 dot or dot us, senior manager of techinical operations at Portland Public Schools. He is to know of PPS requests BEFORE we act on them, and we need to hear from him BEFORE we act on the requests!
  • Updating the hardware grants application using Lime Survey
  • Periodically collecting satisfaction reports from past grant recipients
    • 1st round: February 4th, 2010 (e-mailed to recipients who got grants in the past two years) I created a report with the data from this one
    • 2nd round: August 10th, 2010 (e-mailed to recipients who got grants in the past five months)
  • Work with Hardware Grants volunteer Tom to create a mural for outreach purposes
  • Regularly check in on waiting list gizmos to ensure items marked ready are actually there
    • Example: A comment in RT says "3 laptops ready" but only 2 are there
  • Make comments in RT for LCDs and CRTs that are ready
  • Re-allocate items that have been over-allocated
    • Example: An organization requests 3 LCDs, the maximum; but 4 are ready on the shelf. I will re-allocate the 4th.
  • Re-stock hardware grants goods, including keyboards, mice, cables, etc.
  • Take note of what we can/can't give out, keep volunteers in the loop
    • Example: we currently have a CRT shortage, so I made a waiting list that hardware grants folks use
    • RAM
    • HDDs
    • Network devices
    • Etc.
  • Maintain positive professional relationships with past grant recipients
    • E-mails asking how their computers are working out with invitations to tech support for issues
    • Asking if they need anything else
    • Not making them fill out tickets over and over when we can just re-open them
    • Going off-site when appropriate to take classes, check out computer labs, etc.
  • Work with Dave to make FG-PDX reports - ask Dave about this one
  • Verify data entry is being completed accurately by volunteers and myself occasionally by double-checking the database
    • Merging, editing, or deleting disbursements when necessary
  • Put FREE GEEK stickers on laptops

Looking in my home folder on ryukin may yield some useful documents, not too sure about this, but just in case something's missing.

NOTE: A lot of procedures CAN BE CHANGED just through discussion - the only "policy" we have is the 3 laptops/LCDs per 90 days policy. Discussion with volunteers, interns, and other staff can help better hardware grants, AND changing things in the production meeting or holding special hardware grants meetings.

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