[FreeGeek] SFU Software and Activism Workshop

[ifny]

Jack, that's awesome! Thanks for being the FG Super-Sfoo!

Great ideas you've got. You might want to get in the education work 
group & ask what they think too: 
http://www.freegeekvancouver.org/?q=en/node/26

Yes David & I are doing a presentation on May 19th. He's doing open 
source's benefits for the recycling industry & I'm tying it to consensus.

Maybe we should get together sometime & chat about this. When's your 
retreat brother?

~Ifny



Jack Bates wrote:
> Hi Free Geek Vancouver! I'm working at SFU on collecting hardware for
> Free Geek. Our Public Interest Research Group, a rad, central place on
> campus has agreed to accept donations for us and share information about
> Free Geek with excited activists. I'm preparing a workshop for the PIRG
> retreat next weekend on "Software and Activism", how free software is an
> activist cause and how open source tools can facilitate activism.
>
> Here's a rambling draft of what I know on the subject. I still got to
> pear it down to some core ideas to present. Then I got to come up with
> some interactive ways of presenting these abstract ideas, so I'm not
> just preaching. Any teachers or PDP students on this list?
> http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Education/Open_Source_Workshop
>
> I'd love your feedback on these topics and would love pointers to other
> material on these subjects. I hear David is presenting on free software
> and recycling, which is awesome: Can you give me any help David?
>
> Much thanks all! Jack
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