[SH-Discuss] Open Hours

2013-01-07 Thread Trever Fischer
Howdy, hakkers. We need to expand our open hours. Currently, we are open from 7p-10p on Tuesday and 6p-10p on Wednesday. I'm pledging to be at the space from 12p-5p on Saturday (with an exception for the 19th when I'm at Ohayocon in Columbus) Anyone else want to sign up for when they'll be

Re: [SH-Discuss] Fwd: Beacon Journal Article/Support

2013-01-07 Thread Penny Golightley
I'm confused. Would we collect the cell phones and then sell them to a recycle center? I've reread this thing like three times and I'm still confused about our role in it and how it would generate revenue for us. On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Chris Egeland ch...@chrisegeland.comwrote:

Re: [SH-Discuss] Fwd: Beacon Journal Article/Support

2013-01-07 Thread Trever Fischer
On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 12:21 -0500, Chris Egeland wrote: My understanding is that we would collect the cell phones, and then supply them to Jeremy's company where he would do whatever it is he does to generate revenue, a portion of which would be sent back to us. Here's the majority of the

Re: [SH-Discuss] Fwd: Beacon Journal Article/Support

2013-01-07 Thread Joe Helfrich
I'd look for a bit more detail and try to verify as much as possible; some of these guys are refurbishing and reselling the phones as is in countries that don't have the newest equipment; that can be good or bad, depending on the business practices. Some of them, however, ship the stuff off

[SH-Discuss] Spiff has been updated!

2013-01-07 Thread Penny Golightley
Hi everybody! (Hi Dr. Nick!) I just wanted to let everyone know that Spiff has been updated so if you use spiff to track your payments to SYN/HAK, then it is now displaying accurate information! If you have any questions, let me know! Thanks! Penny Golightley treasu...@synhak.org

Re: [SH-Discuss] Fwd: Beacon Journal Article/Support

2013-01-07 Thread Ryan Rix
Cell phones are entirely different than traditional e-waste in that they are significantly less volumic and massive than the e-waste we traditionally have people *try* to bring us at HSL: *CRTs *Ancient tower computers *broken LCD displays * Ancient proprietary softare learning books (Head First

Re: [SH-Discuss] Fwd: Beacon Journal Article/Support

2013-01-07 Thread Dan Swick
We're still kind of at the point where working CRTs and relatively old (P3-P4 era) towers are moderately useful. Broken LCD displays, mid-90s computers and ancient software are pointless, agreed. Dan -- Dan Swick windc...@fastmail.fm On Mon, Jan 7, 2013, at 08:00 PM, Ryan Rix wrote: Cell

Re: [SH-Discuss] Fwd: Beacon Journal Article/Support

2013-01-07 Thread Trever Fischer
On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 20:47 -0500, Dan Swick wrote: We're still kind of at the point where working CRTs and relatively old (P3-P4 era) towers are moderately useful. Broken LCD displays, mid-90s computers and ancient software are pointless, agreed. Dan I'm looking for another tower to use