[FreeGeek] Potential Location

[Wolfe]

Seconded... This is a good idea.

Wolfe


On Tue, January 9, 2007 9:57 pm, LBA Veldstra wrote:
> I don't know if it helps but i feel that this location might be more
> useful
> than trying to set up in a less intense location.  It may be in the seedy
> end of the Vancouver world.  However that name that the east end has
> developed is merely an exterior.  the heart of the DTES is pure.  the
> people
> there are all about community.  its a meeting place as well as a place to
> find  drugs.  There are people there who are interested in self
> development,
> as well as community development.  The people that Freegeek touches the
> most
> are those who can't afford False creek or Kits or any other neighbourhood
> in
> Vancouver.  I have worked there in the past and have experience it.  In
> the
> non profit sector.  No one there wants to be marginalized.  but they are
> as
> a result of the look of the place.  In the past the Federal govt. has
> dumped
> money into programs that help people to use computers.  The money was
> misguided because they were pigeon-holed by microsoft bullshit.  If we can
> introduce Open-source to this community i feel that it would gain the
> boost
> it so desperately needs.  I know of one individual, from my limited
> experience, who is looking for a place like this.
> ~aaron~
>
> "there is nothing at the end, except everything else"
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