There is a group now forming that has a long-term goal of opening something like Free Geek. It's called "Open Circuit," you can check out the wiki right here: http://riselikelions.org/techwiki Unlike Free Geek, we are probably going to be membership-based, and will also focus on sharing skills between members. If you're interested, let me know and I will add you to the email list! -Erik tclug-list-request at mn-linux.org wrote: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:58:12 -0500 > From: "John T. Hoffoss" <john.t.hoffoss at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Slightly OT: Twin Cities Free Geek? > To: "TCLUG List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Message-ID: > <914f813c0708160758l307eb791yeee2965faab967fd at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On 8/15/07, canito at dalan.us <canito at dalan.us> wrote: > >> Brian, List: >> >> I have always thought of doing something very similar. There was a >> building up for sale next to my school and I thought how cool it would >> be to have something in the realm of a community technology center! >> > > FYI, there is a community technology center of sorts in downtown > Minneapolis. I've never been in it, and not sure what exactly they > cover, but it might be a very good spot to go to begin a conversation > about beefing up current organizations instead of starting a new one > in parallel. I believe it's on Chicago near HCMC, not sure of the > name. > > -jth > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:37:14 -0500 > From: "Brian Dunnette" <bdunnette at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Slightly OT: Twin Cities Free Geek? > To: "John T. Hoffoss" <john.t.hoffoss at gmail.com> > Cc: TCLUG List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Message-ID: > <e9cd5840708160937u25881b2bs21d921674aa8f2bc at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > John- > > Thanks for the tip -- don't want to unnecessarily duplicate too much > effort! I checked on a list of local CTCs ( > http://www.c-can.org/centers.html), but didn't see anything near HCMC -- > anyone know of any more specifics (contact info?) on this organization? > > Thanks, > Brian D. > > > On 8/16/07, John T. Hoffoss <john.t.hoffoss at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 8/15/07, canito at dalan.us <canito at dalan.us> wrote: >> >>> Brian, List: >>> >>> I have always thought of doing something very similar. There was a >>> building up for sale next to my school and I thought how cool it would >>> be to have something in the realm of a community technology center! >>> >> FYI, there is a community technology center of sorts in downtown >> Minneapolis. I've never been in it, and not sure what exactly they >> cover, but it might be a very good spot to go to begin a conversation >> about beefing up current organizations instead of starting a new one >> in parallel. I believe it's on Chicago near HCMC, not sure of the >> name. >> >> -jth >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070816/958c564a/attachment.htm