Our Mission

The Mission of LaunchPad's Computer Lab Semi-Autonomous Working Group is to serve the and our local neighborhood and the arts and social/political activist communit by providing free and low-cost access to computers, internet, printers, video editting and education.

LaunchPad SAWGs (Semi-Autonomous Working Groups) each operate as an independent unit with its own mandate, co-anchors and mode of operation. Each SAWG is represented on the LaunchPad Council, which sets broad LaunchPad policy on a censensus basis.

Computer Classes

Computer lab staff are teaching Basic Computer Literacy classes through LaunchPad's Edu SAWG.

Learn essential job-seeking skills and other useful skills at the Intro to the World Wide Web  is taught on Thursdays in May, May 4, May 11, and May 18,  1-3pm.
Learn valuable basic job skills at the Intro to Office Skills is a 3-week class on Thursdays, May 25, June 1, and  June 8  1-3pm.
More information is available on our Class Schedule page.

LaunchPad Computer Lab

Open 10 am to 2 pm Tuesdays and Thursdays, with staff to answer basic questions
Members' access 24/7.

LaunchPad Computer Lab is open to neighborhood residents for the purpose of using email, jobhunting and other websurfing, writing resumes and other documents, graphic arts, independent video editting.

If you have a machine to donate, or could spare an afternoon or two per month - either to volunteer to staff the lab or to do maintenance or or both - please let us know at complab@torchery.org

Michael is looking for another co-anchor to share some of the tasks of helping to acquire donations, schedule workdays to optimise, clean-up & maintain the equipment, evaluate & acquire software, to coordinate and/or teach classes and to coordinate volunteers to staff the lab so it can open to the public.

If you are interesteed in co-anchoring, volunteering, donating or otherwise supporting LaunchPad Computer Lab, please let us know at complab@l-pad.com.
                     

LaunchPad Computer Lab SAWG has had dedicated space in the LaunchPad building since February of 2005. Since then it has accumulated equipment and chairs, and has had a long bench and storage shelving built in. Various LaunchPad members & Gantry roomies have contributed equipment and time to set things up, but no one really took on the lab’s anchor-ship till Theo stepped in, in August 2005 for a four-month term. Present co-anchors Michael and Brandy are busily bringing in donations, setting up computers and making plans for the future.