[FreeGeek] free geek chicago

[Kristen Miedema]

i took my very first look at the vancouver free geek web-site today.
and i was asked to give some feed back on my experience,
with a "set of new eyes" slant.

i am most likely going to be like 95% of the people who view your site...
(the other 5% being the people who are reading this e-mail now)
fairly uneducated about free geek,
looking to gain a bit of knowledge,
and
if i am impressed on the information i get,
see how i can get involved.

my first thought is that this is a web-site,
like "s" said,
for people who are already involved.
people who have passwords and login names and all that jazz...
people who already know lots about what is going on,

Not a place where i could find out what was going on
(unless i wanted to go to a meeting,
which i don't because i don't anything yet)

so i guess if this is supposed to be a place for communication for all
already involved,
it's great!
but then maybe you shouldn't have any of it accessible to the public.
because it is your face right now,
and it reads more like a geek-blog then an free-geek organization.

my response to "s" comment of
"just hearing about us for the first time and coming to check us out,
doesn't get overwhelmed with definition's of open source and aptgetanarchy
feeds, etc. ;-)."

i did...
and i am.
(i actually just had to google aptgetanarchy... linux... naturally :-)

so guess the question is do you want "my-kind" around yet...?
(my-kind = someone who has heard about it, and wanted to know a little more)
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