[GNUz] "The Free Software Movement - Anarchism in Action"

[Rik Tindall]

Jim Cheetham wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 02:50:55PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
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>>Richard Tindall wrote:
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>>>Good reference piece, thanks Tim. Now, how should we proceed to 'share 
>>>the love' (to borrow a GNOMEism), so that everyone in the region has at 
>>>least heard of FOSS? It's hard to see past a central city lab/i-cafe, 
>>>offering training and community building founded on recycled materials. 
>>>- Anybody interested in helping set one up?
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>>sounds interesting. not sure that chc has the population to support it
>>and make it economic.
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I've always seen it as a matter of creating new demand. At LCA06 'foss 
in education miniconf', Maddog Hall gave a good description of how some 
urban renewal had been effected in New York by such means. He listed 
many special values supplied by innovating with foss in education, so 
now I know it's not just me that thinks like this.

News last night was Arthur Barnett's closing down, with surburban 
megastores & malls draining inner city of life. So I can see CCC & city 
business orgs getting behind something freely engaging disadvantaged 
youth with technology.

>>i have plenty of "recycled materials" if you mean "junky old computers gathering dust".
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Finding spare gear would be the least of our problems, I'd bet. Hawking 
about for sponsor support from IBM, HP etc might surprise us.

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>What about David Kirk's OSTC setup?
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If you mean the premises, they're probably long gone. I did help David 
relocate the PCs to his garage tho. No idea what happened next.

I think we want a groundfloor shopfront, maybe High Street, with 
double-size space: office suite + workshop. An early project might be to 
offer an upgrade/refit to FOSS for St Albans Community Centre - would 
they want that Wesley?

CLUG could share the credit, and base installfest work at a permanent 
location. Get broadband in & SFD would be staying too.

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Richard Tindall, InfoHelp Services <http://www.infohelp.co.nz>