[PLUG-TALK] Electronic recycling

[wes]

On Sun, Nov 5, 2023 at 9:34 PM Ben Koenig <techkoenig at protonmail.com> wrote:

> ------- Original Message -------
> On Sunday, November 5th, 2023 at 9:08 PM, wes <plug at the-wes.com> wrote:
>
>
> > > > I do believe they would have updated their website if they had
> stopped
> > > > taking donations. they don't know how to update their phone greeting
> > > > message but they do know how to update the website ;)
> > > >
> > > > -wes
> > >
> > > Well that's debatable. They still list their education program as
> closed
> > > but appear to have a link to a new "education platform". Though I'm not
> > > sure platform is the correct term since it's just a jumble of text on a
> > > google sites landing page.
> >
> > TIL a great deal of effort and many long hours poured into designing and
> > writing educational material for introductory technology usage can be
> > summed up as a "jumble of text"
> >
> > -wes
>
> I'm well aware of the long hours that go into such a task,


then you should be the last person to criticize the effort.

i'm a little salty about their re-invention of the wheel.
>

I have a lot more reasons to be salty with freegeek than you do. I simply
prefer that if we're going to criticize, that the criticism should be based
on reality.

>
>
> I sincerely hope whoever wrote this current interation of the Getting
> Started guide gets more credit than those of us in the past. But I doubt
> they will from anyone within Free Geek.
>
>
you are correct that credit is hard to come by there. your issues with the
management do not make it rational or reasonable to denigrate the work
being done.

-wes