Pqluglist- [Free Geek PQ] (was: Re: Free Geek PQ)

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NOTE: Rethreading this into a bottom-post style and snipping sigs as it was getting unreadable. --j

>>> Is anyone interested in starting a Free Geek collective here in PQ? Anyone have storage space or a back-alley "storefront?"
>>> 
>>> Josh Fuller
>>> jnfuller at gmail dot com
>>> 
>> Neat idea, but ya, the space will be an issue. Why don't we start with a free buy & sell (give & take?) web site? Should be pretty easy to set up.
>> 
>> I'll start with an XM Radio model XMCK20 http://tinyurl.com/ybhuv88 . Us it as is if you must, but I'd rather see it torn apart and hacked :)
>> 
>> Alfred
>> 
I dunno... buy-and-sell classified web 2.0 of extraneous hardware doesn't really mesh with putting usable computers in the hands of "have-nots." 

How would they find product if they have no PC? If we Free Geek we Free Geek full on. 

I've got some storage/dev space but can't run a retail shop out of my home. Anyone have any churches with a basement thrift shop we could front out of?

Here are the Free Geek rules/manifesto: http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Free_Geek_Startups

Josh

> I've got a few old computers around the house that I think the missus wouldn't mind seeing gone, including an old Sun server that used to run Solaris. I'm not sure what's in it now because I seem to remember trying to install an old version of Mandrake in it at one time.
> If anybody wants that to play with, just let me know.
> 
> DonL
> dlittlester at gmail dot com
> 

Don, do you think you could get a list together of what you have? Is any of it DSL, Puppy or Xubuntu-capable? What model of Sun is the box? 

Josh
jnfuller at gmail dot com