Pqluglist- [Free Geek PQ] Makin' a list...

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>>>> Is anyone interested in starting a Free Geek collective here in PQ? Anyone have storage space or a back-alley "storefront?"
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>>>> Josh Fuller
>>>> jnfuller at gmail dot com
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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 :)
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>>> Alfred
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> 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." 
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> How would they find product if they have no PC? If we Free Geek we Free Geek full on. 
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> 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?
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> Here are the Free Geek rules/manifesto: http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Free_Geek_Startups
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> Josh
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>> 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.
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>> DonL
>> dlittlester at gmail dot com
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> 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? 
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> Josh
> jnfuller at gmail dot com
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> I'll be making a list and checking it twice.  :-) 
I'll have to figure out what model of Sun it was. I used to know but I 
forgot. It handled our parts catalogues at work, quite nicely I must 
say, before it all fell to another architecture I'll not name.