[PLUG] Free Geek in the News

[Richard Konold]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 10:35, Ron Braithwaite wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 10:04 -0800, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> > 
> > > Congratulations to the fine folks at Free Geek for making the front page of 
> > > the Living section in today's Oregonian (Jan. 4, 2005 - for the archives). 
> > > 
> > > I haven't been down there in many months, but it sounds from the article that 
> > > everything is the same, but bigger and better. 
> > 
> > I've seen Free Geek mentioned many times on this list and it finally sunk 
> > into the grey-matter that this is exactly what we need up here in the 
> > Coeur d'Alene, ID and Spokane, WA area.
> >    We've had several discussions at our user group ( North Idaho Linux
> > Users Group -- NILUG ) about recycling computers.  I saw on the about 
> > page that Free Geek does Oregon and the World :-) so I'm wondering if 
> > there is anyway we can cooperate.
> >    I have a garage sale planned for this spring ( going to be advertised
> > as "Guy Stuff" ) with the proceeds going to a local non-profit /
> > not-for-profit I provide other support to (North Idaho Communities ONline 
> > - nicon.org ).  This will work for a one off but there is a lot of old 
> > semi-usable computers floating around here that could use a more permanent 
> > process.
> > 
> > So I'm looking for any suggestions.
> 
> Go to http://lists.freegeek.org/listinfo and sign up on the startup list
> and introduce yourself. Of course, this will pull you over the event
> horizon and you will end up starting a local Free Geek. ;)
> 
> -Ron
> Former Free Geek staff person in process of moving to Vancouver, BC.

This page also has the actual howto start your own Free Geek info:
http://web.freegeek.org/howto/startup/index.html

Rick
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