From david.repa at freegeekvancouver.org Thu Jun 7 00:03:20 2007 From: david.repa at freegeekvancouver.org (David Repa) Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:03:20 -0700 Subject: [FreeGeek] June 9th FG booth at Champlain Heights Message-ID: <1181199801.6342.2.camel@tiburon> Heya everyone. We need a couple more volunteers to help Gerald out this saturday at the Champlain Heights Summer Fair. Someone with a car would be great as we need to get some display pieces up there. Please email me, or call us at the shop if you want to help out. Thanks! -- David Repa http://freegeekvancouver.org shop - 604-879-4335 604-690-7372 From david.repa at freegeekvancouver.org Thu Jun 7 00:05:17 2007 From: david.repa at freegeekvancouver.org (David Repa) Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:05:17 -0700 Subject: [FreeGeek] June 2nd, Monthly Meeting Minutes Message-ID: <1181199917.6342.5.camel@tiburon> Free Geek Vancouver Monthly Meeting Minutes, June 2007 Meeting date and time: Saturday June 02, 2007 at 117 East 2nd Ave. * Old Business The hardware drive netted 40 monitors, 20 computers, and 10 boxes misc. $208 made. Most people who came did so after hearing about FG through appearances at Earth Day, and some from Sierra Legal Defence Fund, who noted it in their offices. RCBC Conference in Whistler (in the Westin hotel). David and Ifny attended for 2 days, and presented on FG's model of operation. This was met affirmatively, and generated a lot of interest. David and Ifny also met the founder of the Basel Action Network, and found some contacts with Computers For Schools, who are currently doing 2 - 3 FG donations per week. Club Day at Simon Fraser University; FG became an official "club" and so can put a drop-off point at SFU, and get a tiny bit of funding for it. Hackathon; 8 FGeeks showed up, and made some new friends among very clever programmers. As such FG Vancouver now has many more links to its web site, and is moving up in the Google search results. Supplying the Greater Vancouver Regional District with a working 5 1/4" floppy drive; the GVRD needed one of these to copy old data relating to spring floods. FG supplied it, and got a nice story for the FG web site out of it. GVRD employees also donated a bunch of old hardware. GVRD Zero Waste Conference; Ifny attended. Word is spreading, and Ifny found many new contacts. Bank balance showing $980; growing each month. That was derived mainly from monitor fees, but there are lots of old monitors piling up. New location: rent is $2000 per month, with utilities included. Business license: David and Ifny went to City Hall to establish proper zoning classification. This took two days, which is much less time than it usually takes. Media: David did a live 6-minute interview on CBC Radio One on either May 8 or May 9. The head of the Salvation Army heard this, and called to request a meeting. Another guy called and donated a "mint" C64. FG was also mentioned in the Langara College Voice, Tooth & Dagger, the North Shore News, and on the 30 Days of Sustainability web site. * New Business Free Geek has a new phone number: 604 879-GEEK (4335). Bert from 36 Zero Waste will visit soon to offer his opinion on process (ie sorting, and planning for intake, dismantling, etc), and to show us how to properly stack monitors. The current plans for the location are: Separation of warehouse and retail is required by the City of Vancouver. The front of the location (entered from 2nd Ave) will thus become a sort of lounge, which can be used for workgroup meetings. Access to the back (entered from the alley) will be possible but limited. Security: we need some bars for the front door and windows. Ifny knows someone who will make these, if we supply the metal. The washroom is not handicapped accessible. We need a wheelchair lift, so we will look for a grant to get one. Until then, there's a 24-hour gas station on the corner. The wiring also needs work; we have to install new electrical outlets for testing assembled systems. The neighbours in the building are: audio geeks who make speakers, a silkscreen studio, a recording studio, and some guys who make surfboards. There will soon be an Operations workgroup. Report from Gerald on the Recycling workgroup, and its discussion on working with 36 Zero Waste. The workgroup does not wish to use the word "partnership" with or for anyone. Preferred terminology is "working relationship" or "the people handling our materials" or suchlike. (Final wording is a job for the Content workgroup.) That aside, the Recycling workgroup wishes to work with 36 Zero Waste. This led to a discussion of logos and links on the FG web site. We do not wish to see anyone else's logo on the FG web site. We will provide links to other sites, but not on the FG home page. These links will open in a new window. This led to: Do we wish to provide a FG "badge" that other web sites can display to link to FG's site? We agreed that this is a good idea, but further discussion was deferred until we talk to FG Portland about permissions (since they have trademarked the Free Geek name). * New Events June 9, FG booth at Champlain Heights Community Centre, needs people. June 16, hardware drive in the same location, needs people. June 17, FG booth at Commercial Drive Car-Free Day Fest, needs people. June 28, "Bike Shorts" Movie Night at the Vancouver East Cinema, needs people. All of these will be announced on the general mailing list.June 2nd From simon at sheff2van.ca Thu Jun 7 05:30:13 2007 From: simon at sheff2van.ca (Simon Pavitt) Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:30:13 -0700 Subject: [FreeGeek] June 2nd, Monthly Meeting Minutes In-Reply-To: <1181199917.6342.5.camel@tiburon> References: <1181199917.6342.5.camel@tiburon> Message-ID: <4667FA55.80402@sheff2van.ca> Hi David > June 17, FG booth at Commercial Drive Car-Free Day Fest, needs people. > Happy to help out with this as planning to go anyway - let me know what time nearer to it.... > June 28, "Bike Shorts" Movie Night at the Vancouver East Cinema, needs > people. > And probably this too..... -- Thanks Simon ======================================== simon pavitt www.headware.ca it's not hardware, it's not software, it's headware ======================================== From unixd0od at hotmail.com Mon Jun 11 12:28:31 2007 From: unixd0od at hotmail.com (Joseph LeBlanc) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:28:31 -0700 Subject: [FreeGeek] Linux Routing Help In-Reply-To: <4667FA55.80402@sheff2van.ca> References: <1181199917.6342.5.camel@tiburon> <4667FA55.80402@sheff2van.ca> Message-ID: Hey guys, Just hoping there's a linux routing guru out there that can give me a hand. I'm having some trouble setting up a wireless card in my slackware linux router. The router uses NAT to share internet access with all the pc's on my wired network. I added a pci wireless card because I'd like to also make this pc into an access point so that my laptop can wirelessly access the internet and my other pc's on the wired network. I've got the card installed fine, and the drivers, and the hostapd daemon setup and running ok, and I configured my dhcp server to listen on both the wired and wireless interfaces. The laptop (running WinXP) can connect to the wireless network and obtain an ip from the dhcp server but it can't access the internet or any pc's on the network (and those pc's can't access the laptop). I think I'm just missing some routing configuration step. So essentially I'm trying to bridge the wired and wireless networks and keep all clients on the same subnet. I don't want to fill the freegeek discussion list with tech support emails so it would be best if you email me directly at unixd0od at hotmail.com Thanks! Joe, From reallifesim at gmail.com Mon Jun 11 19:16:03 2007 From: reallifesim at gmail.com (sim) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:16:03 -0700 Subject: [FreeGeek] Linux Routing Help In-Reply-To: References: <1181199917.6342.5.camel@tiburon> <4667FA55.80402@sheff2van.ca> Message-ID: Hi Joseph, On 6/11/07, Joseph LeBlanc wrote: > Hey guys, > > Just hoping there's a linux routing guru out there that can give me a hand. > I'm having some trouble setting up a wireless card in my slackware linux > router. The router uses NAT to share internet access with all the pc's on my > wired network. I added a pci wireless card because I'd like to also make > this pc into an access point so that my laptop can wirelessly access the > internet and my other pc's on the wired network. > > I've got the card installed fine, and the drivers, and the hostapd daemon > setup and running ok, and I configured my dhcp server to listen on both the > wired and wireless interfaces. The laptop (running WinXP) can connect to the > wireless network and obtain an ip from the dhcp server but it can't access > the internet or any pc's on the network (and those pc's can't access the > laptop). I think I'm just missing some routing configuration step. So > essentially I'm trying to bridge the wired and wireless networks and keep > all clients on the same subnet. Everything sounds like it is set up properly except your iptables rules. I'm not sure what you use for a firewall, so I can't tell you exactly what to do, but if you can find the script (often in /etc/init.d) you can edit it to set up NAT for both interfaces. Most NAT scripts use the interface names for the rules, the NAT rules on your router are probably set up to just work for your LAN interface. You can probably just copy the rules that reference your LAN interface and change the copy to your WiFi interface. Probably. -- sim From reallifesim at gmail.com Mon Jun 11 19:17:55 2007 From: reallifesim at gmail.com (sim) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:17:55 -0700 Subject: [FreeGeek] Linux Routing Help In-Reply-To: References: <1181199917.6342.5.camel@tiburon> <4667FA55.80402@sheff2van.ca> Message-ID: On 6/11/07, sim wrote: Sorry list, that was meant for the OP only. The reply semantics on this list are not the same as the other lists. -- sim From ifny at freegeekvancouver.org Mon Jun 11 19:22:47 2007 From: ifny at freegeekvancouver.org (Ifny) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:22:47 -0700 Subject: [FreeGeek] [Fwd: [Fg-content] Content Work Group Meetin this Tuesday] Message-ID: <466E0377.6060209@freegeekvancouver.org> The Content work group will be meeting tomorrow at Free Geek (see below). This work group was created to take care of our website and other public online content. Drop by if you would like to help, or see what we're doing. We will focus on our website, which uses Drupal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal The meeting officially starts at 6, but we will start getting down to brass tacks starting at 5pm. To join the Content mailing list, or read the archives, go to http://puddle.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fg-content ~Ifny -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Fg-content] Content Work Group Meetin this Tuesday Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 19:07:30 -0700 From: ifny To: fg-content at freegeekvancouver.org At the new space no less 6:00pm Tuesday June 12 117 East 2nd Ave (@ Quebec) 604-879-4335 Come to the back door puhleez We could talk about making the site more easy to use. We could also bat around front page ideas again. And anything else websitastic! ~Ifny _______________________________________________ fg-content mailing list fg-content at freegeekvancouver.org http://puddle.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fg-content From bowserj at uselessdegree.net Sun Jun 17 16:01:57 2007 From: bowserj at uselessdegree.net (Joe Bowser) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:01:57 -0700 Subject: [FreeGeek] BarCamp Vancouver - Filling up fast Message-ID: <1182121317.7270.3.camel@bowserj-laptop> Hey I just heard from work that BarCamp is going to be happening this year. Team Nitobi will definitely be there, among many others. I think there should be some full time Free Geek peeps in the audience: Check it out here: http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver2007Attendees It seems like it's already turning out to be a giant party, just like SHDH, so we should sign up to go!!! -- Joe Bowser From ifny at freegeekvancouver.org Mon Jun 18 16:17:33 2007 From: ifny at freegeekvancouver.org (Ifny) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:17:33 -0700 Subject: [FreeGeek] Van-LUG and pizza,International Cycling Cinema June 28 Message-ID: <4677128D.7030903@freegeekvancouver.org> Thanks to everyone who been helping get our new space ready! And please welcome our new pallet jack "Binji" to the Free Geek family, donated by Mason Lift. --->>> Please note: we are in urgent need of an electrician to help us install wiring for our computer lab. <<<--- If you know an electrician who might be sympathetic to the cause, please contact us at info at freegeekvancouver.org, 604-879-4335 or 604-690-7372. Upcoming Free Geek Events: 00101111010101010101010101101010110001010101010101 Reminder: Van-LUG meeting, TONIGHT (Mon. June 18) 7:30pm @ Free Geek 117 East 2nd Ave. (between Main & Quebec) We welcome the Vancouver Linux Users Group, who will be having their monthly meeting in our space. Everyone is welcome to attend. There will be free pizza; please make sure you R.S.V.P. **right away** so they know how many pizzas to order. More info: http://www.freegeekvancouver.org/en/vanLUG_june07_meeting 00101111010101010101010101101010110001010101010101 Thursday June 28: --->>> Bike Shorts: International Cycling Cinema at the VanEast Theatre (2290 Commercial Drive, near Broadway Skytrain station) <<<--- Doors at 6:30, show at 7:30, tickets $10 This will be a fundraiser for Free Geek and the VACC (Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition) More details, go to http://freegeekvancouver.org/en/node/78 We need lots of volunteers to help out with valet bike parking, ticket taking and setting up. Please contact if you can help! Volunteers get free admission ;) Bike shorts sold out last year and the year before. You can pre-buy tickets at Free Geek. 00101111010101010101010101101010110001010101010101 From ben at computerdolt.com Tue Jun 19 18:14:07 2007 From: ben at computerdolt.com (Ben Holt) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:14:07 -0700 Subject: [FreeGeek] Thanks for having VanLUG over last night Message-ID: <46787F5F.4010505@computerdolt.com> Hi, I'd like to thank everyone at FreeGeek for having VanLUG over to your new place last night! Hopefully you had as much fun as we did. I look forward to future VanLUG and FreeGeek collaborations. - Ben From humble at resist.ca Sun Jun 24 13:43:17 2007 From: humble at resist.ca (agent humble) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:43:17 -0700 Subject: [FreeGeek] Bike Shorts - Free Geek Fundraiser happens thursday night In-Reply-To: <46787F5F.4010505@computerdolt.com> References: <46787F5F.4010505@computerdolt.com> Message-ID: <200706241343.17977.humble@resist.ca> Hi folks, A reminder that Bike Shorts: An Evening of Cycling Cinema is happening this coming thursday night at the Van East Theatre (see below). The proceeds are being split between Free Geek and the VACC so we REALLY want to fill the theatre. I will need to collect back any unsold tickets that I handed out at the last meeting so that we can sell them at the door. Can those of you who took some please leave the money and unsold tickets at FGHQ no later than tuesday? Also, we still need a few volunteers to help with the night of. Please e-mail me if you can help out. thanks, Scott ------------------------ Bike Shorts: that fabulous Night of International Cycling Cinema is happening on Thursday June 28 at the VanEast Cinema (Commercial Drive at 8th Ave -- near the Broadway skytrain station). The line up of films to be shown is now up at www.bikeshorts.blogspot.com for your perusing pleasure. Secure indoor bike parking will be provided (in the parkade, enter on the south side of the theatre). Admission is $10 (that's right, zero price increase in four years, that's like $4 adjusted for inflation). Doors open at 6:30; Show starts at 7:30 -- if you've seen info to the effect that doors open at 7, don't you believe it. The real time is 6:30 pm and there's plenty of reason to show up early. All proceeds from this event go to the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition and Free Geek Vancouver. Advance tickets can be purchased from Jett Grrl Bike Studio (on Union between Main and Gore) and Bikes on the Drive (on the Drive, near Grandview Park) and from various attractive individuals associated with VACC and Free Geek (look for nerds with nice legs). Any thing else ya want to know, just email me. Oh, yeah, and please forward this email or the information contained herein to any lists or individuals you think might be interested. Thanks, yeah. tannis.braithwaite at gmail.com