[FreeGeek] Raising Money/Publicity Through A FreeGeek Conference

[Mike Cantelon]

Joe:

> * Various Non-Profits use Drupal Hosting

Totally. It would probably be easy to get sponsorship and speakers
from local Drupal-based businesses as well (Bryght, RainCity, etc.).

> * Campus/Community Radio has some specialized applications that run on
> Open Source, and would be interested. (CiTR, CJSF, Co-Op Radio)
> * Community WiFi is a very interesting aspect as well

Aye!

> But first of all, what is Sustainable Computing?  I know that I have a
> nasty gadget fetish (like many geeks) and thus sadly I don't practice
> it, so I know what it's not, but what is it exactly?  That's what the
> big draw to this idea is for me, because I don't think anyone on the
> planet knows what this is, and it sounds really neat!

I, too, have a nasty gadget fetish. "Digital crack" a friend of mine calls it.

When thinking of "sustainable computing", environmental sustainability
is the focus but social sustainability is also a related concern... is
technology going in a direction where the current social benefits of
techonology will continue to exist? Protecting/growing community
access, maintaining net neutrality, fighting off the threat of
software patents to open source, working towards open hardware in
contract to hardware-level DRM, are some concerns relating to that.

I thought of a few ideas for presentations relating to environmental
sustainability:
* Computer Recycling Practices
* The FreeGeek Model
* Low-fi Computing
* Computer Recycling Organizations: Who's Doing What?

Mike