Community Council

The Free Geek Community Council is the group responsible for the long term vision of Free Geek. It enacts policy that is:

• overarching, affecting all of Free Geeks, OR
• cross-group, not as big as overarching, but affects multiple groups (if those groups can't coordinate the policy on their own), OR
• controversial in nature.

Any volunteer or worker can be a member of the council.

Current Topics of Discussion

Our next meeting is Wednesday, January 19 at 7:15 pm at Free Geek.

The Future of Collab

Wither Collaborative Technologies?

The Meta Question

We are currently pondering the Meta Question and to this end we're thinking about a scenario for Free geek's future.

Read about one possible scenarios in the following links. (Feel free to add to the scenarios that are already started, add new scenarios to this list, or start working on the suggested but not yet started scenarios.)

Maximum Free Geek

We decide to open all day long, seven days a week.

Sister Free Geek

We grow too big for our space / culture here, and decide to spin off a clone elsewhere in the Portland Area

Spun Off Free Geeks

We decide to move the store offsite, maybe open a classroom elsewhere.

Government Subsidized Free Geek

Say the government passes a bill that makes consumers pay a recycle fee at the time of purchase and then the government pays us to do that recylcing. How might this affect us? Do we become more or less economically viable?

And More

• Homestreet report
• Outreach for board members
• Nathan's job description
• Meeting procedures proposals (Laurel)
  • Commitments
  • Monthly reports
• Envada ISP support Free Geek?
• Free Geek should be more human-friendly. Participate in VBC?