My son recently started at Lewes New School where there was a request for a donation for a digital camera for some of the children to use for a school project.

I didn’t have a spare camera, but thought “I bet one of my geek friends does”. So I tweeted the request.

I got a couple of responses. Not huge responses, but enough to (soon) get hold of a camera (from the lovely Jane).

However, it got me thinking, with the amount of geeks (and normal peeps!) within Brighton (this includes companies) then there must be more geek hardware and software that just hangs around and could really put to positive use. Too good to chuck out, not worth enough to try to sell.

Whilst the likes of Freecycle is a success in its own right it isn’t the place to go to find technology goods.  Not to mention the dodgy liars who often try to approach freecyclers. You might be able to get hold of something, but quite often it’s not worth the wait or hassle.

In addition to this, I’m interested in keeping it focused and making the process easy.  So, for example,   getting ‘cameras’ and publicising a list where only ‘primary schools’ can apply for.  I definitely don’t want to get into the game of recycling computers.

Is it worth the effort? Is there an equivalent? Or should I just be quietly happy that I have my one donation from Jane?