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[Greg Boggs <greg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Free Geek does a lot to help establish other Free Geek collectives. 
There have been successful organisations in Chicago, Vancouver Canada, 
and many other places. Ultimately, it takes a single person with the 
drive to make it happen. FreeGeek is willing to lend their experience 
and even their name, to help satellite organisations succeed. More 
information is available on their website, and their wiki is an open 
document that details many aspects of the internal workings of their 
non-profit organisation including profit and costs for running the 
business side of things.

On 12/08/2010 10:25 AM, Barry Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 10:19 -0800, Greg Boggs wrote:
> > You guys should check out http://FreeGeek.org. The reuse market is huge
> > for Ubuntu. FreeGeek is doing some amazing work with free, and Free,
> > refurbished computers. Their computers are free for volunteers, cheap
> > for shoppers, 3-5 years behind "new", and they all come with a year of
> > free tech support on their preinstalled Ubuntu system.
> I've been trying to persuade the local volunteer sector to set up
> something like this.  So far wit no success.  Any thoughts about how we
> might encourage something like this to start up here in the UK?
>
> Regards,		Barry Drake.