[NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Feb. 9

[Robert A. Donaldson]

Dear Mac friends:

Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Rich Fitzgibbon, John Hamill, Tucker  
Trainor, and Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer  
Recycling Center last Friday, February 6.

We refurbished 13 more Macs bringing out all-time total to 1,670.

We'll successfully made contacts with several more organizations who  
can get our refurbished Macs into the community. Just today, Dave and  
I have received almost 20 telephone inquiries.

We will gather at Goodwill again for our weekly workday on Friday,  
February 13.

Please note Goodwill has finally re-instituted the security procedures  
they were using in the Lawrenceville facility before the CRC moved to  
the South Side. Security cameras have been activated, and the metal  
detector at the exit has been switched on and staffed.

We are asked to stop at the reception desk at the main lobby to sign  
in to get a volunteer badge, then sign in to the log book at the CRC  
entrance at the metal detector.

We followed these procedures when we were in the Lawrenceville  
building, and it's taken Goodwill some time to re-install all the  
devices to cover the area with video surveillance.

These measures are to make sure data on disk drives does not get out  
of the building before the drives can be securely erased or destroyed.  
Goodwill is serious about this, as everyone should be. Any incident of  
data from the drives they are entrusted to wipe or destroy getting out  
would destroy the credibility of their operation, and lead to people  
sending computers elsewhere for recycling.

So please, check in. It takes two minutes, and we're not in any hurry.

Hope to see you there!


Robert A. Donaldson
radonaldson at mac.com
(H) 412-922-3303
(M) 412-477-9188