Queensland IT Flood Relief Programme

Submitted by LizB on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 13:42

Queensland IT Flood Relief Program
The January floods through Queensland have crippled industry throughout the state. With many small/medium business losing valuable equipment getting back up and running is going to be an ominous and expensive task for most.

The Queensland Flood IT relief team is a group of volunteers who are collecting spare PC's, printers, servers, from companies all across Australia. We will then service, and rebuild them with an aim to send them to people in Queensland who need the support to get started.

If you are a business, sole trader, school, or any other organisation that has lost IT equipment in the flood, please register you interest below and let us know what you need. We will be in touch shortly.

To allow us to succeed we firstly need your help.

If you can donate any of the following please do so ASAP to allow our team time to process the donations:

Computers - PC, Macs, Laptops, etc.
Servers or networking equipment
Spare parts - cases, hard drives, memory, cables, etc.
Printers
Phones/PBX system
Tools (to allow us to do our job)
Software
Anything else you think will help.
If you want to contact us please do so via our email address or by phone: (02) 8003 7213.

We need transport! If you could help us get our refurbished equipment from NSW to the people who need it please get in touch ASAP!

We also need your time. If you work in IT, and can help our team clean/repair/rebuild equipment let us know. Any time you can spare is greatly appreciated.

Please note: The IT Relief Fund will not accept cash or financial support, please donate this directly to the QLD Relief fund , but we will greatly appreciate any other support for our cause.

Comments

VN (not verified)

Sat, 01/15/2011 - 15:06

I've 2 old PCs that I inherited from the previous business owner that I never use. Where do I send them?

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mike.hopgood

Sat, 01/15/2011 - 16:15

Hi

I'm part of the effort in Brisbane. Currently we are organising a collection and distribution Point in Brisbane. Hopfully we will have secured something in the next couple of days.

If in the first instance you would mind going to www.qlditrelief.org and registering you support and someone will get in contact with you as soon as possible.

Thanks again for your generous contribution.

Regards

Mike Hopgood

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mike.hopgood

Sun, 01/16/2011 - 08:19

If you have been impacted by the floods and are a small business, sole trader, school or organisation, please DO NOT THROW AWAY your damaged computers. We may be able to recover or salvage it. We may still be able to get your data off it and transfer it to one of our pool PC's.

contact us at www.qlditrelief.org for more information

Daggys

Tue, 01/18/2011 - 17:38

any word of a drop off point yet.

Annie Nipper (not verified)

Mon, 01/17/2011 - 11:20

Hi, we are a cleaning company with our head office located at Rocklea. We were very fortunate to have rescued our data box, a couple of servers & pc's from the rising waters. We have ended up losing 6 PC's, 2 Servers, 3 laptops and the UPS. If anyone is able to help us out with these items, it would be very much appreciated. We have been told that insurance will not cover our losses and we will need to completely rebuild the interior of our premises. Our number is (07) 3426 9400, or mobile 0413 623 521. With thanks, Annie

Fred Smith (not verified)

Mon, 01/24/2011 - 11:57

Any word of a drop off point.
How old is too old for the gear?
I have gear ready to go...

ken dale (not verified)

Thu, 01/27/2011 - 19:24

hello Fred - as long as hardware runs XP and has a 25 pin printer port and a serial port then for me this would be a really great help to rebuild a flood affected business - Ken.dale67@gmail.com

ken dale (not verified)

Thu, 01/27/2011 - 19:20

Like to register for flood relief - re replacement computer. I need older laptop or desktop - need hardware fitted with 25 pin printer port and serial port to support particular label printing software - previous flood lost hardware was not powerful - if it can run XP it can support this software - please advise

Daggys

Sat, 01/29/2011 - 12:26

hi Ken, I believe I can help you out with a desktop PC which will suit your requirements. please contact me by email, daggy@y7mail.com

Nick Luu (not verified)

Fri, 01/28/2011 - 14:07

I send a equipment donations form via their website but I have not receive any instruction from them at all. The contact number is always engaged. Moreover, I do not have a car to drop off these items.

Now I put it in ebay auction. All the money will go to the PREMIER'S DISASTER RELIEF APPEAL.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=140506035678&...

In case the QLD IT Flood Relief would like to collect these items, please let me know so I will withdraw the auction.

Choa Ping (not verified)

Fri, 01/28/2011 - 15:37

Where can we drop the items off at in Brisbane?

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