Hardware Grants What We Can Give Out List

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).

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 schools and organizations within the Portland city limits.
High Ends	No.	No.and		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	Production will revisit this in a few months to make sure that there is a steady supply going to the store.
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**.
ServersDirectly from server build. If not there, then check the store.
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.
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	Temporarily no limit as we are swimming in them.--Elizabethwt 21:21, 11 August 2011 (UTC) 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-Printerland	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)	No. (With rare exceptions for some out of spec drives).	No.	Talk to A/T coordinator.
SATA Drives (Desktop)	No.	No.
All Laptop Hard Drives	No.	No.
External Hard Drives	No.as we are swimming in them	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.
Rambus	No.	No.		We no longer test it.	Ask Vagrant.
Server RAM	Maybe.	No.		Ask Vagrant.
Laptop RAM	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.	as we are swimming in them		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.