Which laptops have these anti theft stickers? Perhaps we can just suggest that they cover them with other stickers.
Does August 26 (the last Saturday in august) sound good for a test run of this idea? I’m not much of a graphic designer, but I can whip up a basic flyer.
Jonathan
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 2:09 PM, Jake via sudo-discuss <
sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org> wrote:
I love the idea of more events like this, but i want to say two things:
The anti-theft stickers on the laptops are difficult to remove and leave a
"STOLEN PROPERTY 1-800-488-STOP" mark behind, which is obviously really
crappy. This is absolutely the last thing poor kids need to deal with, both
for their own personal self-worth and also practical matters that they might
be harassed and even arrested even though they've done nothing wrong, let
alone have their computer taken away. So this needs to be the first focus:
developing a process for removing these tags and cleaning the "tattoo" off
before doing anything else. I recommend first confirming the computer boots
properly from USB but doing nothing else, let the new owners experience the
joy of installing linux themselves! But this removal process should be done
by us, before inviting people to receive computers, and it's going to be
boring unfortunately. But it's super important.
https://www.computersecurity.com/stop/
Secondly, decorating a computer can be a highly personal activity, and i think
that people should be given the chance to decorate their own computer that
they're taking ownership of. This goes well with the fact that we need to
move these computers into the hands of their new owners.
I have just escalated my attempts to connect to the Boys and Girls Club of
Oakland, because i hope it's a great way to find young people who can't afford
computers and can benefit from them (as well as whatever support we can offer)
so prepare to hear back from them.
that said, i am pretty busy lately so I am not bottomlining this effort :)
but i can offer lots of potential laptop stickers! I'm sure many people on
this email list have stickers they want to offer as well.
-jake
On Tue, 25 Jul 2023, Jonathan Cadle via sudo-discuss wrote:
> So, I had an idea that I wanted to run past everyone: What if we invited people (both within Sudoroom, and perhaps some of the creative/art groups at the Omni) to redecorate our giveaway laptops? My reasons for suggesting this are as follows:
>
> - It's fun
> - It's an opportunity to introduce other Omni people to Sudoroom
> - People who might not be comfortable coming to sudoroom for technical stuff might be interested in a creative project, and find us friendlier than they'd expected
> - A lot of the laptops just have IT stickers on them indicating machine iDs and such, that don't mean anything anymore.
>
> What do you all think? Would a weekend be good for this? Maybe a Saturday?
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