Free Geek does a lot to help establish other Free Geek collectives.
There have been successful organisations in Chicago, Vancouver Canada,
and many other places. Ultimately, it takes a single person with the
drive to make it happen. FreeGeek is willing to lend their experience
and even their name, to help satellite organisations succeed. More
information is available on their website, and their wiki is an open
document that details many aspects of the internal workings of their
non-profit organisation including profit and costs for running the
business side of things.
On 12/08/2010 10:25 AM, Barry Drake wrote:
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 10:19 -0800, Greg Boggs wrote:
You guys should check out http://FreeGeek.org. The reuse market is huge
for Ubuntu. FreeGeek is doing some amazing work with free, and Free,
refurbished computers. Their computers are free for volunteers, cheap
for shoppers, 3-5 years behind "new", and they all come with a year of
free tech support on their preinstalled Ubuntu system.
I've been trying to persuade the local volunteer sector to set up
something like this. So far wit no success. Any thoughts about how we
might encourage something like this to start up here in the UK?
Regards, Barry Drake.
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