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Permacomputing Organization
This organization participate in projects that support the continuing existence of science and education, maintain digital and physical libraries of information, refuses to contribute to the wasteful use of resources, and strongly prefers doing things in a sustainable and robust way, by:
- Having long-term in-house research and development projects related to radically sustainable computing, both software and hardware.
- Maintaining exaustive documention, manuals, examples, and distributions of all relevant software and hardware.
- Repairing and maintaining its equipment in-house, maintaining a workshop and storage for necessary replacement parts, diagnostic tools and recycled hardware.
- Support forms of culture that strengthen the status of radically sustainable computing/technology, hosts workshops on the collection, repair and building working appliances from dead tech.
- Convincing investors about their vitality to the future of civilization.
- Make sure that the members live close to the workshop.
- Producing its own energy, and donating surplus.