Hardware Grants What We Can Give Out List
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This list was decided upon at a meeting between Hardware Grants (represented by Elizabeth WT), Sales (represented by Leah B.), Advanced Testing (represented by E-Beth and Meredith), and laptops (represented by E-Beth) that was held in December 2010. IT IS TIME FOR IT TO BE REVISITED!
| Item | Can We Give It Out | Waitlist | Location | Notes | People |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Systems | |||||
| Freekboxen | Yes | No | Ready to Go System Shelf | ||
| FG-PDXs | Maybe. | No. | Ready to Go FG-PDX System Shelf. | Can only go out to recipients within Portland city limits. | |
| High Ends | No. | No. | These are small in number and are big money makers for the store. | ||
| Regulars | Yes, because we have a lot of them right now. | No. | Only give people regulars if there is some reason a Freekbox won't do, e.g. they want all small form factor cases and there are not enough on the Freekboxen. | ||
| Laptops (PCs) | Yes | Yes-Laptop wait list | An organization can receive up 3 laptops every three months. | ||
| G3 (CRT All in ones) | Yes. | Yes. | Talk to Macland Coordinator.and | ||
| G4 (iLamps) | Yes. | Yes-Macland. | Macland | ||
| G5 | Probably not.and | Yes-Macland. | Production will revisit this in a few months to make sure that there is a steady supply going to the store. | Check with Macland Coordinator. | |
| Laptop (Macs) | No. | These are few and far between and they get snapped up from the store like that **finger snap**. | |||
| Servers | |||||
| Servers (non-multi core) | Yes. | No. | Directly from server build. If not there, then check the store. | Server triage form needs to be completed. | Check server build and see if they have anything that will fit the build. Then check the store. If you cannot find anything that will work, submit the specs to Vagrant. Vagrant will let us know what we can/cannot do. Minimum server specs are:
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| Servers (multi core) | No. | No. | |||
| Server racks | No. | No. | An organization can receive up 3 LCD monitors every three months. | The server racks that we do get in are usually pretty beat up. There is also a storage problem with keeping large items for grants. | |
| Monitors | |||||
| CRT Monitors | Yes | Yes-Warehouse | Tested CRT Monitor Shelves in Warehouse | Temporarily no limit but we need to be careful with big requests and reconsider having a limit if the stock dwindles.--Elizabethwt 21:21, 11 August 2011 (UTC) The store does not care if they ever see CRT monitors again. | |
| LCD Monitors | Yes | Yes-LCD Wait List | Hardware Grants Shelf in Warehouse. Advanced Testing brings them to the Hardware Grants shelf. Hardware Grants instructor allocates them if there is a wait list. If not, shepherds just take what they need. | 5 per organization per every 3 months. Specs for grant LCD monitors: up to 17", beige or cosmetically damaged. Testers will put a note on the monitor if they are damaged. | |
| Printers, Scanners, Etc. | |||||
| Inkjet Printers and Multi-function Printers | Yes | Yes-Printer Wait List | Various shelves around the building. The Hardware Grants Instructor allocates them and brings them to the Hardware Grants shelf. | Communicate with the store about their needs before snapping them all up. | |
| Black and white laser printers | Yes | Yes-Printer Wait List | Various shelves around the building. The Hardware Grants Instructor allocates them and brings them to the Hardware Grants shelf. | Communicate with the store about their needs before snapping them all up.Directly from server build. If not there, then check the store. | |
| Color laser printers | No | No. | These are rare, expensive and often needed for infrastructure. We can do color inkjets. | ||
| Scanners | Occasionally. | Yes-Printerlandand | Various shelves around the building. The Hardware Grants Instructor allocates them and brings them to the Hardware Grants shelf. | Printerland doesn't test a lot of scanners, so there may be a wait. The store does not care if Grants has priority for printers. | |
| FAX Machine | As is. | Yes-Printerland. | Various shelves around the building. The Hardware Grants Instructor allocates them and brings them to the Hardware Grants shelf. | Printerland no longer tests FAX Machines, so it may be better to ask for a multi-function printer w/ FAX. There is no demand for fax machines in the store. | |
| Hard Drives | |||||
| IDE Hard Drives (Desktop) | Maybe. (depends on current stock/size) | No. | Talk to Reuse Coordinator. | ||
| SATA Drives (Desktop) | No. | No. | |||
| All Laptop Hard Drives | No. | No. | |||
| External Hard Drives | No. | No. | We don't see very many of these and we don't have the capacity to format drives for them. They are also cheap to buy new. | ||
| RAM | |||||
| SDRAM (Desktop) | Maybe (see note). | No. | Check Tardis, then store. | PC100 no; PC133-512: yes. | |
| DDR 1 (Desktop) | Yes. Under 512 mbs. | No. | Store or TARDIS. | Grant recipients can use friend discount if they need some 512mb or as we are swimming in themabove. | |
| DDR 2 (Desktop) | No. | No. | Grant recipients can use friend discount. and | ||
| Rambus | No. | No. | We no longer test it. and | Ask Vagrant. | |
| Server RAM | Maybe. | No. | Ask Vagrant. | ||
| Laptop RAMand | Maybe. See notes below. | No. | SDRAM: No; DDR: No; DDR2: Probably. Ask laptop instructor. | ||
| CARDS | |||||
| Video Cards | Maybe. See note. | No. | Try A/T first. Then go to store. | AGP: Yes; PCI-e: No; PCI: No. | |
| Sound Cards | Yes. | No. | A/T or the Store. | ||
| Wireless Cards | No. | No. | Friend discount. | ||
| Network Cards | Yes.as we are swimming in them | No. | |||
| Network Devices | |||||
| Fire walls, USB Dongles, Industrial network devices | No. | ||||
| Wireless Routers | Temporarily "yes" as Tony has an overflow. | No. | Box under the table in the monkey house. | ||
| Switches, Non-wireless routers, PCMCIA Cards | Maybe. | Check store. | |||
| Access Points | Yes. | No. | as we are swimming in them | Untested. | |
| USB Hubs, KVM Switches | Yes. | No. | |||
| Keyboards and Mice | |||||
| PS2 Keyboards and Mice | Yes | No | Warehouse (Hardware Grants Storage Area) | ||
| USB Keyboards and Mice | Maybe | No | Check Testing Area in Receiving, then check store backstock. | If granting a system, give recipients PS2s if the system can use them. If it's an independent grant, find out if they really need USBs or if PS2s would suffice. | |
| Wireless Keyboards and Mice | No. | ||||
| Speakers and Headphones | |||||
| Powered Speakers | No | No | These are saved for adoption. | ||
| Speakers that only connect to a computer | If available | No | Receivingas we are swimming in them | Check the box in receiving to see if any are available. Utilize the special requests board and e-mail receiving list (receiving@freegeek.org). | |
| Home Entertainment Speakers | No. | ||||
| Computer Headphones | Yes | No | Receiving or store. | Be sure to test them! | |
| Cameras and Projectorsas we are swimming in them | |||||
| Digital Cameras | Yes | No | There is a stash of cameras for hardware grants in the wooden hardware grants drawer in the monkey house. Put the name of the grant on one when allocating it and make sure that no one else has already allocated it. | Ask Tom who tests them for more when the stash runs out. | |
| Digital Video Cameras | Maybe | No | Ask Tom who tests them. | ||
| Web Cams | No | No | There is a high demand in the store for these. | ||
| Video Projectors | No | No | Usually broken when we get them. | ||
| Overhead Projectors | Sure. Take them please. | No | See if there are any in recycling. | ||
| CPUs and Mobos | No and no. | There are supply issues with the Mobos. People rarely know what they are doing with the CPUs. | |||
| Phones and Accessories | |||||
| Cell Phones | No. | ||||
| Blue Tooth Headsets | No. | ||||
| Cordless Phones | No. | These are immediately killed in receiving due to data security concerns. | |||
| Corded Phones | Yes. | No. | Receiving. | Utilize the special requests board and send an e-mail to receiving@freegeek.org. |