Freegeek Research Paper
Freegeek is an agency dedicated to helping communities around the world recycle and gain access to computers.
I “quality controlled” computers, making sure they worked in basic ways before Freegeek put them in their store or gave them to poor schools. It was frustrating at times, as \ some of the computers wouldn’t load, but it was satisfying to go through several computers and make sure they were working properly. It made me feel like I was making a difference for schools and businesses.
The most difficult part was loading the drivers/performing a stress test, as when the computer took a long time, I didn’t know if it was loading or it had crashed. One of the computers I was checking didn’t like the Nvidia driver, so I had to go get an instructor …show more content…
so they could purge it.
I would definitely do this service again, as it was easy, it helps the community, and it helps you to learn about computers.
It also teaches you things you didn’t know, while not boring you..
Next time, I would bring a packed lunch, as I got really hungry while working from 10-1:30. I would also try building the computers instead of quality controlling them, just to try something different and to get more of a feel for how computers work.
Yes, something surprising did happen. There is a fridge for the volunteers at Freegeek, and if you don’t label your food, it is liable to get eaten. Someone brought in a 20 gallon tub of ice cream and dumped it in the freezer, so everyone in Freegeek got to enjoy some ice cream. It was really cool.
I made the contact to set up the service, with my parents helping, as an adult is required to be with you at all times during the service. It was a hard to get around scheduling sometimes, as I had a fencing tournament/was playing rugby at the same time they offered us a shift. Sometimes they were just booked out. I encountered the computers not always working properly, as well as me being hungry. That resulted in me not being able to concentrate as well, lowering my productivity rate. Other times, the instruction binder was missing instructions, or I forgot to plug in an ethernet cable. There were a few hiccups along the way, but the service was easy and simple
overall.
I “quality controlled” computers, making sure they worked in basic ways before Freegeek put them in their store or gave them to poor schools. It was frustrating at times, as \ some of the computers wouldn’t load, but it was satisfying to go through several computers and make sure they were working properly. It made me feel like I was making a difference for schools and businesses.
The most difficult part was loading the drivers/performing a stress test, as when the computer took a long time, I didn’t know if it was loading or it had crashed. One of the computers I was checking didn’t like the Nvidia driver, so I had to go get an instructor …show more content…
so they could purge it.
I would definitely do this service again, as it was easy, it helps the community, and it helps you to learn about computers.
It also teaches you things you didn’t know, while not boring you..
Next time, I would bring a packed lunch, as I got really hungry while working from 10-1:30. I would also try building the computers instead of quality controlling them, just to try something different and to get more of a feel for how computers work.
Yes, something surprising did happen. There is a fridge for the volunteers at Freegeek, and if you don’t label your food, it is liable to get eaten. Someone brought in a 20 gallon tub of ice cream and dumped it in the freezer, so everyone in Freegeek got to enjoy some ice cream. It was really cool.
I made the contact to set up the service, with my parents helping, as an adult is required to be with you at all times during the service. It was a hard to get around scheduling sometimes, as I had a fencing tournament/was playing rugby at the same time they offered us a shift. Sometimes they were just booked out. I encountered the computers not always working properly, as well as me being hungry. That resulted in me not being able to concentrate as well, lowering my productivity rate. Other times, the instruction binder was missing instructions, or I forgot to plug in an ethernet cable. There were a few hiccups along the way, but the service was easy and simple
overall.