History of Free Geek
This is the history of Free Geek.
Free Geek started on the 13th on some month in 2000.... .... and now it's 2007 and we rock the (opensource-community-building-digital-divide-elimination) party that rocks the (recycling-for-the-environment-free-computers-for-volunteers) party.
From its beginning, self-organization on the parts of many individuals and groups led Free Geek to self-identify its collective movement as a natural means of continuing it. Its history seems embodied by its present experience, including what people remember, and is also implied by its organizational doings.
Continuing its movement today depends upon both remembering its past experience with some precision as well as continuing to embody it. Reading here, new staff members and others may vicariously experience achievements and challenges of past years, discern presently useful similarities and differences between scenarios and situations which Free Geek has previously responded and adapted to, become aware of touchstones of its historical evolution and progression and, yes, share circumstances and events of losses and setbacks within their own contexts, too.
By Eras
e.g., Before the Beginning, the Beginning, the Collaborative Technologies thread, Board Activation, etc.
By Milestones
e.g., firsts: for instance, load to recyclers, adopted boxen, Council meeting, incorporation, adopted boxen, hardware grant, paychecks for employees, Geek Prom, Geekfair, etc.
By Functional Self-Organization
e.g., history of committees, their Council interactions, their interactions with previous and subseqent developments and circumstances, etc.
By Mission Emphasis
e.g, its continuing focus, dynamic alignment with circumstances, synchronization with past practice, etc.
By Person
e.g., personal accounts.
By External Relationships
e.g., speakers, hosted events, grants, media notice, nonprofit staff and volunteer work and relationships elsewhere, the passage of time itself (simple chronology), etc.)